| Title | Lightsail Update: Back in Communication | |
| Date | Monday June 01 2015, @08:53AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the needed-to-open-all-hailing-frequencies dept. | ||
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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