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Mars Odyssey Entered Safe Mode Again

According to mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a state known as a safe mode on July 11. This usually happens when some sort of damage occurs. The purpose of the safe mode is to prevent any type of damage from spreading t...

17 July 2012
04:11 GMT

Mars Odyssey Returns to Active Duty

Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was finally returned to active duty on June 25, after suffering a glitch that sent it into a protective safe mode on June 8. The vehicle has been operating in orbit around the Red Plan...

28 June 2012
04:51 GMT

Mars Odyssey Could Be Brought Back Online Soon

Mars Odyssey project manager Gaylon McSmith announced that the team in charge of returning the long-lived orbiter to active duty is currently trying to activate a spare reaction wheel, to replace the one that failed on Friday, June 8. Reaction wheels – which spin inside their enclosures up to 5,000 times per m...

15 June 2012
04:09 GMT

Glitch Puts Mars Odyssey in Safe Mode

Officials at the American space agency announce that one of their longest-running spacecraft, the Mars Odyssey, has entered safe mode around the Red Planet, after encountering an error. NASA representatives say they intend to bring the vehicle up and running again in no-time. At this point, things are a bit unclear....

11 June 2012
11:09 GMT

Kepler Exits Safe Mode, Is Operational Again

NASA officials announce that the Kepler planet-hunting space telescope has regained full functionality, and is now back online. The observatory remained on safe mode for six days following an attempt to update some of its software. As experts attempted to do so, a computer malfunctions shut down primary science instr...

23 March 2011
11:22 GMT

Planet-Hunting Telescope Enters 'Safe Mode'

Officials at the American space agency say that their planet-hunting telescope has experienced a sudden “safe mode” event recently, during a planned communications sessions scheduled for March 14.As experts were trying to contact the Kepler Space Telescope in the Sun's orbit, the spacecraft experienc...

18 March 2011
12:09 GMT

Spirit Still Silent at Troy

It's now or never for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit, say mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. The Martian spring is in full swing, and, if the robot is ever to recover, now should be the time. The last communications NASA had with Spirit were on Ma...

10 January 2011
03:43 GMT

Cassini Is Operational, Preparing for Enceladus Flyby

Experts at the American space agency announce that they were successful in restoring all functionality to the Cassini spacecraft, which was affected by a computer glitch on November 2.The malfunction, which was most likely owed to a solar storm damaging a data transmission coming from Earth, forced its computers into...

25 November 2010
16:01 GMT

Cassini Enters Safe Mode

A few days ago, the NASA Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn put itself on safe mode, as a precautionary measure to defend itself against future harm, Experts are now trying to determine what is wrong with the orbiter, which has been at the gas giant for more than 6 years.The mission, a collaboration of NASA, t...

5 November 2010
04:48 GMT

What To Do if Your Mac Does not Boot Normally

After reading this article you will know how to use Safe Mode, Disk Utility and fsck for fixing the errors preventing a Mac to boot normally.If you have used Macs long enough you must have heard of people having problems booting up their machines from time to time. For instance their Macs start up but they either won...

20 August 2010
07:31 GMT

MRO Exits Safe Mode, Resumes Operations

The American space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been recently pulled out of its safe mode state, and has returned to making highly detailed scientific observations. The announcements were made by experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, who manage the mission for NASA. All six sci...

18 December 2009
08:38 GMT

Windows 7 RTM Blocks Access for Standard Users in Safe Mode Hotfix

Microsoft is providing the necessary resources to help lock users with standard privileges accounts from accessing Windows 7 while the operating system is in Safe Mode. According to the Redmond company, all that system administrators need do is download and apply a hotfix made available via Microsoft Support. Once t...

11 December 2009
09:40 GMT

MRO Gets Pulled Off Safe Mode

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been in a precautionary “safe-mode” since August this year, following a glitch that forced its computers to reboot. This was not the first, and certainly not the most severe such incident to have hit the MRO in the last years. In 2009 alone, three other instances ...

9 December 2009
01:56 GMT

Scientists About to Start Analyzing First Kepler Data

The Kepler mission is one of the most ambitious ones NASA has, but not necessarily in terms of size and complexity, but as far as goals go. The powerful telescope, currently on an Earth-trailing orbit, more than 10,700,000 kilometers (about 6,600,00 miles) away from our planet, is set to discover new, Earth-like plan...

22 June 2009
04:13 GMT


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