International Space Station - loss of communications..

[W4GPL]

The ISS is unable to contact earth at the moment. They were able to briefly able to establish contact to inform ground controllers that the crew is safe..

[W4GPL]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/19/regular-contact-with-space-station-lost/?hpt=hp_t2

Better information on Twitter though.

https://twitter.com/search?q=International%20Space%20Station&src=typd

[KC2UGV]

Good to hear the crew is fine, but egads! A simple software update made them lose contact? Anyone got a UHF or 2M handheld? They've got LOS to half the planet at any time.

[W4GPL]

NASA says communications restored with International Space Station, effective 12:34 p.m. EST

They rebooted 3 times..

[WA4TM]

Good to hear the crew is fine, but egads! A simple software update made them lose contact? Anyone got a UHF or 2M handheld? They've got LOS to half the planet at any time.

Can't be doing anything the simple way... If they had a hand held 2M rig, they would manage to have dead batteries when needed.. Why? Because the damn computer was down that told them to charge said batteries!!!

[N2NH]

Well, they could hook them up to the solar panels with a few resistors. I'm certain some hams would've heard them.

UT's are standing by.

[PA5COR]

Rebooted 3 times? running Windows i suppose?

[kb2vxa]

Sound familiar? How many times have you updated software only to have it go SNAFU?

"Rebooted 3 times? running Windows i suppose?"
Nope, Winders has System restore.

[KG4CGC]

NASA says communications restored with International Space Station, effective 12:34 p.m. EST

They rebooted 3 times..

I was running late 80s computers in the late 80s. Consumer grade stuff but late 80s none the less.
LOL! I wonder if they're running the latest and greatest on the ISS.
Our stealth bomber was running outdated and outmoded hardware by the time they finished building the first one.

[AE1PT]

Shame they didn't have a couple whackers with reflective vests and HT's on board. This would not have been a problem...

[N8YX]

Shame they didn't have a couple whackers with reflective vests and HT's on board. This would not have been a problem...

The Jump Teams would somehow manage to make a fiery spectacle out of themselves, however...

[W5GA]

I was running late 80s computers in the late 80s. Consumer grade stuff but late 80s none the less.
LOL! I wonder if they're running the latest and greatest on the ISS.
Our stealth bomber was running outdated and outmoded hardware by the time they finished building the first one.
True story...when the U.S.S. Salt Lake City (SSN-716) was commissioned in 1984, the fire control system was the AN-UYK 7...a water cooled system that used disc pack technology. If you're not familiar with a disc pack, think of half a dozen LP's, stacked on top of each other. This was the hard drive. Change the targeting mission, shut the whole system down, swap out disc packs and re-boot. Took about 45 minutes start to finish. This latest and greatest ('70's) tech didn't have enough computing power for nuclear capability, and had to be augmented about 2 years after we left the builders yard with a SPARC station so we could carry nuc's.

[KG4CGC]

I am reminded of the BSOD picture photoshopped into a cockpit view of the space shuttle.

[AA8AE]

Must be using software from Google!

[N2RJ]

Rebooted 3 times? running Windows i suppose?

I wouldn't be surprised if they were. Windows runs everything from nuclear power plants to NASA.

When they scrapped the mainframes they replaced them with Windows server.

[W4GPL]

I'd be stunned if the primary systems on the ISS ran Windows. They may have Windows servers for research and other non-critical aspects, but there's no way something like navigational control, oxygen flow, etc are controlled by Windows. Maybe there's a Windows front-end.. maybe. I'm sure whatever they're using is similar to the technology they use in medical equipment.

[kb2vxa]

Heh, I remember disc packs. If it's not on the spindle properly it goes off like a washer on spin with an unbalanced load.

"I'd be stunned if the primary systems on the ISS ran Windows."
Don't be, it's the next logical step.

[N2NH]

Heh, I remember disc packs. If it's not on the spindle properly it goes off like a washer on spin with an unbalanced load.

"I'd be stunned if the primary systems on the ISS ran Windows."
Don't be, it's the next logical step.

Great pic. I'm certain that must've been the low point of the trip, having seen the blue screen of death before myself.

[W7XF]

Maybe they need to use Mac OS X.

[kb2vxa]

I never had a blue screen with Win V3.1.1 over DOS 6.2 on a 486 DX60 with a math coprocessor. Maybe because Windows was just a GUI for DOS? (;->)