NASA has lost communication with the Space Station

[earthman]

Just seen this. It's being reported that they have lost communication with the space station. They said that they are getting a little contact every 90 minutes as it passes over Russia but barely. Humm.... More meteors maybe takin out a satellite's? Need to keep up on this one.

earthman

[Garuda]

Just seen this. It's being reported that they have lost communication with the space station. They said that they are getting a little contact every 90 minutes as it passes over Russia but barely. Humm.... More meteors maybe takin out a satellite's? Need to keep up on this one.

earthman

Yep. A software update caused a problem.
( http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/19/4005070/NASA-ISS-communication-breakdown )

Only sporadic communication is possible at present. The ISS itself is not in danger.

[Garuda]

And they've just been able to restore communications:

"Communications have been restored with the space station effective 11:34AM Central."

https://twitter.com/NASA_Johnson/status/303921043876225024

[earthman]

Ahaa, i see. Had me wondering about NASA. With all that has been happening i feared the worse.

earthman

[CasperParks]

Good news that everyone is okay.

[majicbar]

Yep. A software update caused a problem.
( http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/19/4005070/NASA-ISS-communication-breakdown )

Only sporadic communication is possible at present. The ISS itself is not in danger.

Wouldn't you think by now they would have learned? One must proof software upgrades before downloading them into a point fail source system controlling critical hardware. Imagine had this been a planeload of people flying in a pilotless airliner, OOPPS would not be able to cover what could have happened. Thank GOD for simple orbital physics, at least the software issue did not dump all the atmosphere within the station at the same time, or do something crazy like HAL in 2001.