FRANCE: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is currently in orbit with dwarf planet Ceres where its first phase of its science mission was apparently delayed on Friday, April 24 due to a communication glitch that placed the tiny probe into safe mode.
After sending the command from mission ground control, Dawn commenced to start its scientific mission on Friday morning. Apparently, the command was not received upon transmission where the spacecraft automatically went into safe mode in which all commands and communications from Earth were temporarily suspended.
According to mission chief engineer Mark Rayman from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this was nothing more than an inconvenience which will not affect the science mission on the dwarf planet. The delay only lasted a few hours and was officially resolved on Firday night.
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