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In this case, the "corrections on the fly" refer to all of the real-time responses that the software makes without ground involvement. In the case of a solar limb sensor detecting …

It seems like you want to discredit NASA now ("shouldn't melt") vs some imagined possibility("won't melt" but it does). With the amount of design, analysis, testing, and independen…

(former software engineer on PSP here) It's a certainty that it will melt eventually, but that's not a satisfying answer to the question "why won't it melt?" The satisfying answer …

It's been a traditional at JPL (and other NASA centers) to wear matching polos for quite some time now, at least years, before the Rosetta landing. Not saying that NASA is better t…

Is that an actual quote within your quotation marks? Or are you creating your own straw man and attributing it to them?

It appears to be a photo post (i.e. images uploaded to FB natively) as opposed to a link post, where FB chooses a thumbnail for you (or not, if it's a YouTube link). I've been seei…

Very cool! I've forwarded this on to a few members of the NH software team

As someone tech-savvy and having used WireShark, even, I'm curious to know from my sibling commenters, what are you thinking? Of course you start by buying hardware or modifying a …

I'll repost an answer I gave elsewhere[1]: > See the "Guidance and Control" and "Communications" section of the NH > Spacecraft Systems page for a detailed answer. > > The short ve…

Source on that? Even the Tajectory Correction Maneuvers (TCMs) are planned in advance, and it's just the details of the TCM that are finalized in the lead-up to those events. As fa…

Except there is an atmosphere...

Here's some information on LORRI. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/lorri_about.html https://books.google.com/books?id=oZfpYIUKDrUC&pg=PA11&dq=ne...

It's not like these copies replace the higher-res ones. Not a project scientist, but I'd rather as many people as possible see some image than only a few see only any at all.

It will take months to transfer the full data sets back. The data are formatted in ITF packets, inside CCSDS packets, inside CCSDS transfer frames. [0] http://public.ccsds.org/publ…

And we're still not flying memory sticks (but we are flying more memory than ever before). Fun fact: New Horizons has no file system on its recorder, but current missions at APL no…

The main command and data handling processor runs code written in C, as does the guidance and control computer. However, the G&C algorithms were 'written' in Simulink, and autocode…

He didn't have a hunch, he just knew that the standard comprehensive test was skipped, which is why the standard test procedure only detected a problem, and he had to end early and…

I don't see anything there (under favorites or subscriptions), but I didn't expect to, either, since I was never asked to log in. It would be very nice, though, to be able to add v…

Embarrassing that Bloomberg doesn't seem to know this.

I try to do the same thing in lectures. Unless I'm late or the lecturer is a particularly fast talker, I can usually process the information to the point where I'm writing my curre…

I think an important distinction is that he was not completely idle, as in playing cards, but solving a problem, albeit one with no clear relevance to anything.

Limited budget is certainly a big reason, and another is the lack of a pipeline. When Apple releases a new iPhone every other year, it's not like they started development on the ne…

For a start... * Operating their current missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html * Designing and building future missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/future/index…

Very cool concept and enjoyable game, but it caused the Iceweasel 'plugin-container' on my laptop to use over 200% CPU, which I'm guessing is related to the circuit breaker flippin…