Comments on: CAPSTONE off to a bad start. https://habitablezone.com/2022/07/06/capstone-off-to-a-bad-start/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2022/07/06/capstone-off-to-a-bad-start/#comment-50372 RL Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:02:40 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=95811#comment-50372 https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/nasas-capstone-looking-happy-and-healthy-after-communications-issue/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/nasas-capstone-looking-happy-and-healthy-after-communications-issue/amp/

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2022/07/06/capstone-off-to-a-bad-start/#comment-50367 ER Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:30:57 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=95811#comment-50367 Space travel is not easy. I got my new Bose Wave Radio in the mail a few days ago. The CD player didn't work. I had to send it back, and its replacement was delivered a few days later. It is now working fine. But spacecraft are complicated gizmos. And any little thing that goes wrong has the potential of scrubbing the whole mission. We've gotten pretty good at designing no-single-point-of-failure systems, but it can still happen. Space travel is not easy.

I got my new Bose Wave Radio in the mail a few days ago. The CD player didn’t work. I had to send it back, and its replacement was delivered a few days later. It is now working fine.

But spacecraft are complicated gizmos. And any little thing that goes wrong has the potential of scrubbing the whole mission.

We’ve gotten pretty good at designing no-single-point-of-failure systems, but it can still happen.

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2022/07/06/capstone-off-to-a-bad-start/#comment-50365 RobVG Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:39:45 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=95811#comment-50365 Seems odd things were going well then they lost communication so early in it's it short journey. Seems odd things were going well then they lost communication so early in it’s it short journey.

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