Getting your player ready...
The 2001 Mars Odyssey’s memory has been successfully restored with a rebooting of the spacecraft’s computer late Wednesday.
The computer was shut down and restarted with a series of commands designed to clear memory flaws that engineers feared had built up since the last reboot in 2003.
The procedure was developed by personnel from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which built the $151 million orbiter, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The commands were delivered from Lockheed Martin’s facility in south Jefferson County to powerful antennas in the Deep Space Network that is used to communicate with spacecraft.
Ann Schrader: 303-954-1967 or aschrader@denverpost.com.
