[meteorite-list] Team Restoring Mars Orbiter After Reboot (MRO)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201009201556.o8KFuOKk015540_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-304

Team Restoring Mars Orbiter After Reboot
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 17, 2010

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status Report

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a
precautionary standby mode after experiencing a spontaneous computer
reboot on Sept. 15. The mission's ground team has begun restoring the
spacecraft to full operations.

Initial analysis of telemetry from the orbiter indicates the "safe mode"
status was triggered by a reboot similar to one experienced Aug. 26,
2009. That was the most recent time that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
put itself into safe mode. For 10 months prior to this latest reboot,
the spacecraft operated normally, making science observations and
returning data. During 2009, unplanned reboots put the spacecraft into
safe mode four times.

The orbiter has normal power, fully charged batteries and safe
temperatures. The team has increased the data-rate of communications and
is taking additional steps to resume science observations soon.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, at Mars since 2006, has met the
mission's science goals and returned more data than all other Mars
missions combined. It completed its primary science phase of operations
in November 2008, but continues to observe Mars both for science and for
support of future landed missions.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is managed by NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

2010-304
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