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Hackers damaged/destroyed the ROSAT satellite in the late 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_
by j-wags 4y ago
Hackers damaged/destroyed the ROSAT satellite in the late 90s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSAT#End_of_operations
- yencabulator 4y agoYour link contradicts that (or at least has NASA denying it): > However, NASA officials in charge of the day-to-day operations of the ROSAT mission at Goddard, including GSFC Rosat Project Scientist Rob Petre, say definitively that no such incident occurred. Talleur's information appears to have come from one of his interns who exaggerated a hacking incident on an office computer not related to flight operations.
- j-wags 4y agoAh, you're right - I'd vaguely remembered seeing this before and pasted the wikipedia section without reading it thoroughly. My mistake!