2018's first spacewalk bugged by software • The Register
"Apart from a slightly irritating software bug, it seems NASA's first spacewalk for 2018 went smoothly."
'Vande Hei is scheduled for another walk on January 29 to stow a spare LEE, removed from the robotic arm last October, for future use. ®', "The point of the spacewalk was to replace a component on Canadarm2, one of the International Space Station's robotic arms.", "Five hours into the replacement effort, ground controllers tried to power up Canadarm2 – and that's when the software glitch emerged.", "Because of the US government shutdown, the spacewalk started on time but the Webcast of the event didn't start until two hours of action elapsed."
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0 u/derram 24 Jan 2018 17:42
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"Apart from a slightly irritating software bug, it seems NASA's first spacewalk for 2018 went smoothly."
'Vande Hei is scheduled for another walk on January 29 to stow a spare LEE, removed from the robotic arm last October, for future use. ®', "The point of the spacewalk was to replace a component on Canadarm2, one of the International Space Station's robotic arms.", "Five hours into the replacement effort, ground controllers tried to power up Canadarm2 – and that's when the software glitch emerged.", "Because of the US government shutdown, the spacewalk started on time but the Webcast of the event didn't start until two hours of action elapsed."
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