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February 20th 13, 05:16 AM posted to sci.space.station
Brian Gaff
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NASA loses contact with ISS
Maybe another space rock nobody saw. ahem.
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In article ,
says...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/us/nas...html?hpt=hp_t2
Sounds like a software glitch and not a major issue. Yet.
Also, I believe they still have the ham set aboard so in theory could
communicate over most of the orbit.
But communicate with who? Certainly not NASA's mission control.
You underestimate the power of ham operators.
I'm thinking more in the case of an emergency where they can't wait to get
in range of Russia they can CQ and ask someone to do a phone patch to
Houston. Unlikely? Yes.
But more my point is that while some data might be lost in the meantime,
it's not a real risk to the astronauts.
As far as I know, the US side is able to maintain "constant"
communications because it links with the TDRS satellites via a
directional (parabolic) antenna.
Could be this is what was broken? At least when I posted the URL, it
didn't have much detail.
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