Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Spirit Still In X-Band Fault Mode

Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2009 -
Spirit is still in X-band fault mode due to a high-gain antenna (HGA) dynamic brake anomaly that first occurred back on Sol 2027 (Sept. 15, 2009) and has re-occurred most recently on Sol 2052 (Oct. 11, 2009). With the HGA fault, all X-band uplinks use the low-gain antenna (LGA) and uplink bandwidth is limited.


http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Spirit_Still_In_X_Band_Fault_Mode_999.html

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