NASA.gov is down, but Curiosity is working
Yesterday, Western media, and then ours came out with headlines: " The Curiosity Mars Rover stopped working due to the budget crisis in the US ." So he is not true . Until.
Work continues:
Emily Lakdawalla, the editor of the website of the US Planetary Community, contacted representatives of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Applied Physics Laboratory and received confirmation of
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All NASA missions managed by JPL and APL continue to operate as before : Curiosity; Opportunity; Odyssey; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; Cassini; Dawn; Juno; Spitzer; Voyagers; WISE and others. APL continues to manage MESSENGER and New Horizons.
The reason is simple: JPL and APL are private organizations that work under a contract with NASA. For some period of time they have already received payment, so they continue without interruption. This will continue at least until Monday, and what will happen next they will decide in working order.
Yes, there will be no news updates and tweets yet. But the server with the original images continues to be updated (the images come even while I am writing these lines), so we can continue to monitor the activities of Curiosity and its interplanetary counterparts.
But, the Curiosity server on Amazon, if the money for the extension really holds, and Jeff Bezos does not decide to sponsor, we may have to fold.
PS Everything that is happening now in the US is nothing more than budgetary clashes between the president and parliament. A government-sponsored plebiscite is nothing more than a strike to put pressure on parliament. The foundations of capitalism have not yet collapsed, the United States is not experiencing this for the first time, and there is no reason to panic, no matter what you expect: images of comet ISON from the MRO satellite or the release of Half Life 3.
Work continues:
Emily Lakdawalla, the editor of the website of the US Planetary Community, contacted representatives of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Applied Physics Laboratory and received confirmation of
')
All NASA missions managed by JPL and APL continue to operate as before : Curiosity; Opportunity; Odyssey; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; Cassini; Dawn; Juno; Spitzer; Voyagers; WISE and others. APL continues to manage MESSENGER and New Horizons.
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In brief: All the missions that are operated on at least a week. At JPL, that includes: Curiosity; Opportunity; Odyssey; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; Cassini; Dawn; Juno; Spitzer; the Voyagers; and WISE, among many others. At APL, that includes MESSENGER and New Horizons. It also includes the Deep Space Network, which is where JPL manages but it is subcontracted out.
www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/10010929-shutdown-jpl-operating.html
www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/10010929-shutdown-jpl-operating.html
The reason is simple: JPL and APL are private organizations that work under a contract with NASA. For some period of time they have already received payment, so they continue without interruption. This will continue at least until Monday, and what will happen next they will decide in working order.
Yes, there will be no news updates and tweets yet. But the server with the original images continues to be updated (the images come even while I am writing these lines), so we can continue to monitor the activities of Curiosity and its interplanetary counterparts.
But, the Curiosity server on Amazon, if the money for the extension really holds, and Jeff Bezos does not decide to sponsor, we may have to fold.
PS Everything that is happening now in the US is nothing more than budgetary clashes between the president and parliament. A government-sponsored plebiscite is nothing more than a strike to put pressure on parliament. The foundations of capitalism have not yet collapsed, the United States is not experiencing this for the first time, and there is no reason to panic, no matter what you expect: images of comet ISON from the MRO satellite or the release of Half Life 3.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/196054/
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