by David Todd | Apr 8, 2013 | exploration, Science, Seradata News
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena have put the Mars Curiosity Rover into a one month hibernation starting on 4 April. The reason is that the planetary alignment of Mars puts the sun and its atmosphere of highly charged particles more or less...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2013 | commercial launch services, exploration, History, Science, Seradata News
For those of you that may have missed a day or two of our space coverage, Flightglobal provides Space e-newsletter which lists the most important stories drawn from our main news and Hyperbola web pages during the past month. Click on the link below to see the March...
by David Todd | Mar 21, 2013 | exploration, Science, Seradata News
Mars Curiosity Rover fell into a safe mode on 16 March as result of on board data file size anomaly. A file meant for deletion was connected to active command file and the safe-mode entry was triggered when the command file failed a size-check by the...
by David Todd | Mar 14, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Science, Technology
After NASA found it could no longer offer launches for the ExoMars mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) approached Russia for help. As a result of long running discussions, on 14 March the ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2013 | exploration, Seradata News
According to NASA scientists, an analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Data returned by the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Chemistry and Mineralogy...
by David Todd | Mar 5, 2013 | exploration
Following problems with its A-Side computer (symptoms of a corrupted memory location were being shown) on 28 February 2013 the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover was switched to the redundant onboard computer on the B-side computer. This swap caused the rover to fall into a...
