[time-nuts] Space mission comes to an end because of a " computer time tagging" problem
Geoff
vk2tfg at ozemail.com.au
Sat Sep 21 09:48:18 UTC 2013
If I was to make an educated guess about this one I'd say that it is more
likely to be an overflow problem. The spacecraft was operating for
significantly longer than it's builders or programmers ever considered
likely.
-Geoff.
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:30:54 pm Rob Kimberley wrote:
> David,
>
> The satellite has probably got a Rb as its clock (hopefully more than one).
> All I can imagine is that there has been a major clock failure of some
> sort, and everything is in free run and unable to sync up with ground.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Rob
>
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> time tagging" problem
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> NASA's Deep Space Comet Hunter Mission Comes to an end
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