NASA Satellite Un-stranded 21
Ronnie Coote writes "In March, a previous article mentioned that NASA's latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (used for communications between Shuttle, Space Station, ground, etc) had been stranded in a low orbit due to fuel leaking from its tanks. Well, thanks to the hard work of Boeing and NASA boffins, it's now reached geostationary orbit and "expected to fulfill its contractually required 15-year service life". More details from Boeing."
I would have gotton first post (Score:5, Funny)
Treknobabble (Score:5, Funny)
Re:RTF Press Release, damn it! (Score:3, Funny)
Probably the geek who suddenly remembered his missing gum pretended like it was lucky guesswork to figure out the segment position and density of the object clogging the gizmo segment he built. Telemetry my ess.
Re:Treknobabble (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ok, that really takes the cake for /. grammar (Score:3, Funny)
Another Slashdot Ad. (Score:4, Funny)
"The TDRS-I recovery effort was an incredible feat that demonstrates the inherent design robustness of our products and the incredible space operation knowledge and experience of our team,"
Blatant advertisement designed to get all us geeks to buy Boeing's satellites instead of Ratheon's or Lockheed's.
Well not me. My billion dollars is going to Alcatel Space. They are an open company that doesn't engage in these slashvertisments. Slashdot is so corporate owned.
(joke)