ACS on HST broken?

Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
Randy Poe wrote:
Speaking of which, someday I'd love to find out what heroic
feats of engineering got the Mars Rover rebooted when it
crashed early in its mission. When I heard about the failure,
and then about the recovery, I thought "there's a heckuva
story there somewhere".

Anybody ever heard details?

Here are some technical details about the Pathfinder bug:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.49.html#subj1

and the Spirit bug:

http://mailman.dtnrg.org/pipermail/d...ry/001388.html


EXACTLY what I meant when I said "heroic feats of engineering"
and the story I hoped to hear someday. Thank you for this.

I love the epilogue of the first one:

"David also said that some of the real heroes of the situation were
some
people from CMU who had published a paper he'd heard presented many
years
ago who first identified the priority inversion problem and proposed
the
solution. He apologized for not remembering the precise details of the
paper or who wrote it. Bringing things full circle, it turns out that
the
three authors of this result were all in the room, and at the end of
the
talk were encouraged by the program chair to stand and be acknowledged.
They were Lui Sha, John Lehoczky, and Raj Rajkumar. When was the last
time
you saw a room of people cheer a group of computer science theorists
for
their significant practical contribution to advancing human knowledge?
:-)
It was quite a moment."

- Randy