Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Faulty Software May Have Doomed Mars Orbiter
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> | "We think that the failure was due to a software load we sent up
> | in June of last year," NASA Watch quoted McNamee as saying. "This
> | software tried to synch up two flight processors. Two addresses
> | were incorrect -- two memory addresses were overwritten. As the
> | geometry evolved, we drove the [solar] arrays against a hard stop
> | and the spacecraft went into safe mode. The radiator for the
> | battery pointed at the Sun, the temperature went up, and battery
> | failed. But this should be treated as preliminary."
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> http://www.space.com/news/070110_mgs_softwareglitch.html
The MGS doesn't use Windows, or Linux, or any real OS for that
matter. The 10 year old, 1750A powered, SCP systems run a handful of
assembler programmed tools, in their 128K of memory!
Basically think of the MGS as a Sinclair Spectrum powered robot.
http://geekcounterpoint.net/files/GC052B.html
Still, bit of a bummer though. And an expensive one at that.
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K.
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