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The rig is up. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission launched successfully and precisely on schedule – at 10:02am Eastern time on Saturday morning (3:02pm UTC), but within minutes ran into telemetry problems. The MSL spacecraft, which carries within it NASA's big-as-a-Mini-Cooper, nuclear-powered, experiment-stuffed …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Telemetry failure.

    Probably just an intermittant failure in the AE35 unit.

    You'd have thought that the on-board computer's failure prediction algorithms would have picked up on that one and got someone to fix it in advance though.....

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    1. Mystic Megabyte
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      @TeeCee

      maybe this had something to do with it

      http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html

      Also big storm coming today

      http://www.spaceweather.com/

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