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That official statement seems incredibly light on detail, almost as if written for children, or worse, members of congress. I wonder, is there a technical publ
by inopinatus 3y ago
That official statement seems incredibly light on detail, almost as if written for children, or worse, members of congress.
I wonder, is there a technical publication elsewhere that has more substantial coverage for interested people?
- b112 3y ago[flagged]
- michaelt 3y agoWhat more is there to say? It seems like a pretty clear explanation to me.
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- inopinatus 3y agoWell, congressman, I might be curious what the actual commands were, why they were issued, how it led to the unfavourable outcome, how they detected and measured the degree of misalignment, what a corrected command sequence might’ve been, and then cross-referenced to a hopefully existing article on how the spacecraft will eventually re-align itself, and perhaps some further reading on other commands that are routinely or not-so-routinely issued and how they are received, decoded, and executed on board the spacecraft. Basic stuff, y’know; after all, this isn’t rocket science. If there is such an archive, or some approximation thereof, it would surely be fascinating to pore over it.
- nocoiner 3y ago“Mistakes were made.” Between that and “I have no recollection,” that’s probably as far as any congressional hearing would be able to drill into this.
- jf22 3y agoI would not describe what you are asking for as "basic stuff."
- inopinatus 3y agoDon’t tell me this thing doesn’t have a user manual.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoFOIA it. EDIT: Reply here with a link to your Muckrock.com FOIA request and I'll send you the $5.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago[flagged]
- hfkwer 3y agoWhy would they owe you such detailed explanations? You're asking for a full-on incident report. These take days to write and there's no reason for the public at large to need it.
- guhidalg 3y agoBecause I pay for NASA and I can ask for NASA to do a post-mortem.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoI pay for NASA and I don't want them to spend needless resources releasing a public post-mortem. Talk about waste of resources.
- mark-r 3y agoI'm amazed there was as much detail as there was. How do they know how far off the antenna is?
- lb1lf 3y agoPresumably because that was the orientation the spacecraft was asked to get to before comms was lost. Also, it is possible that 2 degrees of misalignment still allows some fraction of the signal to be detected, but it not being strong enough to be decoded. The received signal strength and the beamwidth of the antenna could then be used to estimate how far off the mark the Voyager 2 dish is.
- jjw1414 3y agoI expect that a technical publication will be available soon at one of these sources: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/data-access/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/data-access/