Yesterday, September 20, 2013, specialists from the National Aerospace Agency of the United States has officially announced that they would suspend efforts to re-establish contact with the spacecraft Deep Impact, «lost” due to an error in the software.
However, publication on the portal NASA is proud to note that, despite the premature loss of the probe, the agency has received from the Deep Impact is much more data than you could even expect. Essentially, the unit made a real revolution in the understanding of the nature of comets and their activity.
Launched in January 2005th, Deep Impact successfully completed its primary mission – a relatively detailed study of a comet Tempel. This task probe handled within six months after the spacewalk.
Further research functions Deep Impact was significantly expanded, and over the next eight years he came to Earth observation data yet for a number of comets and other such space objects.
That is, in general, the work of the messenger earthlings agency more than enough.
But this year, as already mentioned above, due to programming errors, “the old man” acted improperly. Last successful session with Deep Impact was held the 8th of August this year, after which it was broken forever. According to engineers, NASA, the device simply disoriented in space and now flies, as they say “blindly” by the will of the cosmos.
Well, Deep Impact should thank for that. And say goodbye …
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