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Lightsail Update: Back in Communication

posted by martyb on Monday June 01 2015, @08:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the needed-to-open-all-hailing-frequencies dept.

tonyPick writes:

An update at the Planetary Society homepage is reporting that the LightSail has reopened communications following a suspected software glitch.

"Based upon the on-board timers contained within the beacon (and comparing them to beacons following deployment), it appears that a reboot occurred within the past day," wrote Georgia Tech professor David Spencer, LightSail's mission manager.

[...] LightSail is not out of the woods yet. Its exact position remains fuzzy, complicating two-way communication.

This is an update to the previous article on the LightSail software problem.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @02:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @02:02PM (#190702)

    Stupid software guys always try to blame the hardware guys, but in the end it is almost always the software.