Man, all this stuff with the Spirit rover gives me that stomach-knot-tying feeling akin to a major server outage — attempts that fail, brief possibilities of success, different strategies tried, all under the watchful eye of management and the end-users.
I don’t know how those folk at JPL are bearing up under it, but I wish them the best of luck.
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About 30 minutes of communcations was successful this morning, I believe 10 minutes of stored data + 20 minutes of back and forth.
Today’s news conference might shed some more light. Try this blog:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/
Adot’s “Notblog”, he’s doing a great job of typing up the news conferences (some people have all the luck, getting NASA TV!)
Cool beans.