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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: 2) by black6host on Monday June 01 2015, @01:20PM

    by black6host (3827) on Monday June 01 2015, @01:20PM (#190683) Journal

    I'm glad to hear they're making progress. It amazes me as to how we deal with problems such as this. It's like talking to my mother when she call for support. Reboot, mom. Still not working, wait 5 minutes and reboot... Still having problems? Wait until tomorrow to give the computer a rest and then reboot. And so on.... Eventually, amazingly, the problem gets fixed!!!

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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.