NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope • Hacker News Board

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC

Phillips126 wrote: post #33

Damn Windows updates... Getting downvoted so I guess I need to clarify I was being sarcastic. I work in IT and we say this a lot.

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Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by dekhn » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #11

Koshkin wrote: post #6

They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks

This is a truly stellar wit. But in all honesty, how would an internet across the solar system work?

store and forward

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by mcc1ane » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:46 PM UTC

chias wrote: post #39

I can't figure out what's causing computer issues on my desk. I'm not even in space.

everything's in space

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by qzw » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #14

qzw wrote: post #7

pushes up glasses I would watch the heck out of a Twitch stream of their debugging/brainstorming sessions. I always loved the movie Apollo 13 , especially the technical troubleshooting parts.

Debugging on a computer that is down is not a very exciting process.

In the movie Hero[0], two kung fu masters fight a battle purely in their minds. And when the mental fight was over, they only execute one physical move to finish the battle.

Think of this as the computer equivalent of that scene.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by Koshkin » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

desktopninja wrote: post #20

For pure comedic value: Someone deployed a K8s cluster on hubble and now its lost DNS because the master nodes connected to a starlink satellite

This is good: Starlink or such would be probably an ideal way to connect a space telescope (or any spacecraft) to the internet.

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by sharkweek » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

mcc1ane wrote: post #43

chias wrote: post #39

I can't figure out what's causing computer issues on my desk. I'm not even in space.

everything's in space

“It’s all in your head, but so is everything.”

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by pavlov » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

Microprobes dropped by 'Oumuamua are making sure humans don't look where they're not supposed to.

(It's UFO season! Everything is aliens again.)

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by dave_sid » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

This thing? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/0/07/Tumbl...

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by desktopninja » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #25

desktopninja wrote: post #20

For pure comedic value: Someone deployed a K8s cluster on hubble and now its lost DNS because the master nodes connected to a starlink satellite

More likely they got it to run Doom.

Hehe: https://opensource.com/article/21/6/kube-doom

Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope

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Post by beerandt » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

setug wrote: post #31

Wouldn't it be a good idea to open the source code for community inspection? Of course NASA would panic with Russia and China inspecting for "hostile" actions, but hey, if they don't know what to do, why not calling the expert reverse engineers of the world?

Idk about the payload computer, but I've got to think guidance and operation controls would have at least some remnants of legacy keyhole technology, or would expose hardware details that might still be sensitive information, even if the software was a total rewrite.