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Subj: Spirit misses call home
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From: ZL2VAL@ZL2AB.#46.NZL.OC
To : SPIRIT@WW
NEWS RELEASE: 2004-027
January 21, 2004
Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
Ground controllers were able to send commands to the Mars Exploration
Rover Spirit early Wednesday and received a simple signal acknowledging
that the rover heard them, but they did not receive expected scientific
and engineering data during scheduled communication passes during the
rest of that martian day.
Project managers have not yet determined the cause, but similar events
occurred several times during the Mars Pathfinder mission. The team is
examining a number of different scenarios, some of which would be
resolved when the rover wakes up after powering down at the end of the
martian day (around midday Pacific time Wednesday).
The next opportunity to hear from the vehicle is when the rover may
attempt to communicate with the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter at about
8:30 p.m. Pacific time tonight. A second communication opportunity may
occur about two hours later during a relay pass via the Mars Odyssey
orbiter. If necessary, the flight team will take additional recovery
steps early Thursday morning (the morning of sol 19 on Mars) when the
rover wakes up and can communicate directly with Earth.
Full details on the rover's status will be described in the next daily
news conference Thursday at 9 a.m. Pacific time at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, which will be broadcast live on NASA Television.
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73 de Alan.
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