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Old January 24th 04, 10:44 PM
JimO
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Default "Good news" -- Spirit responds in 'cripple mode'


JPL folks were much cheerier today, they have been successfully commanding
Spirit in a mode that avoids use of some of its memory modules -- 'Flash
memort' -- which is suspect. They call it 'cripple mode', in jest --
actually, they could run the rest of the mission at full capability this
way, if necessary, but they want to determine what event precipitated the
failure first.