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Webb Telescope Spectrograph Suffers Software Glitch

posted by hubie on Friday January 27, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the try-rebooting-that-fixes-everything dept.

upstart writes:

A communications delay timed out the instrument's flight software, and some planned observations will have to be rescheduled:

NASA says the Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph is currently unavailable for science operations following a software glitch earlier this month.

In a release published yesterday, the agency stated that the issue started on January 15, when a communications delay within the instrument caused its flight software to time out. Flight software is a crucial aspect of any instrument operating in space, as it manages a whole suite of operations on a given spacecraft, including its orientation, communications, data collection, and thermal control.

[...] There have also been some software hiccups. In August, the telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (or MIRI) had a software glitch that paused its operations through November. And in December, there was an issue with the telescope's attitude control, which manages where the telescope is pointing. The glitch put the telescope into safe mode multiple times last month.

[...] Webb has done some tremendous work so far and will continue to illuminate the most ancient and murky regions of the cosmos. You can check out some of what's on the docket, along with other astronomy plans for the year, here.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28, @12:17AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28, @12:17AM (#1289012)

    Perhaps you could instruct me in the proper usage of "coger" in Spanish. That - and inform me which language does not have any such word whose meaning has been overloaded for the convenience of double entendre. It's human nature.

    Otherwise, yours is just another screwed up assertion.

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday January 28, @02:34AM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday January 28, @02:34AM (#1289024)

    The irony was that an English speaker assumed English is unusual in having many words with multiple meanings, when, in fact, English stands out as one of the few languages that keeps coming up with new words for every variation possible.

    Anyhow, I hear Lojban does a lot to reduce ambiguity in both grammar and vocabulary.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28, @03:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28, @03:33AM (#1289034)

      Oh...I get it...thanks...and sorry for snapping at you. Like rain on your wedding day.