Back to front switches blamed for space probe crash
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It shouldn&#39;t happen to a scientist: investigators have found that the $250m (Â£139m) Genesis space probe, which crash-landed in the Utah desert last month, failed because the switches designed to trigger its parachute were installed backwards.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - U.S. and Russian flight controllers partially restored critical computers aboard the International Space Station on Thursday after a system crash that could have forced the $100 billion orbital outpost's crew back to Earth.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, potentially extending the space shuttle's mission - or cutting it short.
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Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.
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Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain&#39;s Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather.
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Several days after space shuttle Discovery arrives at the international space station, some of the lights will go out. Some communications with Mission Control will stop. Backup power will be lost.
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If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other 'space weather' phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged and, in very rare and extreme cases, spacecraft may even be lost.
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KOROLYOV, Moscow region. June 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov managed to repair four out of the six computers in the Russian segment of the International Space Station early on Saturday, the Russian space mission control told Interfax.
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An investigating board says the capsule was doomed by faulty engineering drawings that were done backward. The drawings led to incorrect placement of switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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By Joe Stinebaker Associated Press  HOUSTON -- An astronaut collapsed twice Friday, a day after she returned to Earth in the shuttle Atlantis, and officials attributed her wobbles to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO  HOUSTON - While engineers try to determine what caused the failure of Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation, oxygen and water supplies, a NASA official said Thursday he doesn't consider the situation critical.
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LONDON  -- Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.      A six-month inquiry by project organisers, their second attempt to discover what went wrong with the mission, was unable to pinpoint why the tiny craft vanished shortly before it landed on Mars on Christmas Day last year...
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Six processors on two computers began crashing on the Russian side of the international space station Tuesday, limiting the spacecraft's ability to maneuver and produce oxygen. By Friday evening, four of the six processors were up and running again.
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DARMSTADT, Germany: Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission yesterday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at 2 kilometres per second, or 7,200 kilometres per hour.
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Summary - (Nov 2, 2004) A new report by the UK House of Commons science and technology select committee pins the blame for the loss of the Beagle 2 lander on a lack of early money.
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Russian and NASA engineers worked into the evening yesterday to figure out why two computer systems essential to the operation of the international space station crashed, and the agency began making contingency plans that include potentially abandoning the $100 billion facility if they should fail.