Re: Two more space station computers revived (all of them up and running)
- From: "RickiBobby" <NascarDriver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:04:14 -0400
Some people realize that a motherboard can overload a power supply. Maybe
that's why most servers have redundant power supplies?
As for the Euros, they are realizing their Russian computers could screw
them too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6763173.stm
"kiril" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:84ea0$4677243d$cf7057e0$17449@xxxxxxxxxxxx
This article is for the clueless retards that infest this group who can't
tell
the difference between an overloaded power supply and a motherboard.
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts117/070616fd9/index2.html
Two more space station computers revived
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: June 16, 2007
Hoping for the best, space station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight
engineer Oleg Kotov hot wired two computers aboard the international space
station today that engineers had feared were victims of fatal power supply
failures. To everyone's delight, the machines promptly booted up and
appeared to be running normally, two more successes in an improbable
recovery from crippling computer crashes last week.
Two of the three computers making up the Russian segment's guidance,
navigation and control computers, along with two of three central control
computers, were successfully revived Friday when Yurchikhin and Kotov used
jumper cables to bypass suspect surge protectors in secondary power supply
circuits.
The redundant so-called soft switches were designed to shut off power to
their respective computers in the event of surges or spikes in the
incoming electricity. Engineers now believe the installation of a new
solar power truss last Monday triggered a subtle change in the station's
power grid that somehow caused the secondary power supply switches to
respond, preventing their computers from booting up.
Russian engineers believed four of the six primary computers were healthy
and victims of the overly sensitive switches. When the switches were
bypassed Friday, the four computers, two in each system, booted up
normally. After a thorough checkout, one machine in each chain was put
back in control of critical station functions.
Russian engineers believed the other two computers were victims of power
supply hardware failures and no attempt was made to start them on Friday.
But today, Yurchikhin and Kotov installed jumper cables on the off chance
the computers were, in fact, healthy and both started up normally.
"Overnight, our Russian colleagues conferred with us and confirmed that,
in fact, all six computers are working," said Mike Suffredini, space
station program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "In fact,
with the modification they did on the four I told you about last night,
they did that modification on those last two, they brought all six
computers up and confirmed they were all operating nominally. Then they
went back down to a four-computer set again and continued to check out the
computers.
"Currently, they have all six computers up while we do some additional
troubleshooting to understand the environment and how it might affect the
computers."
In the meantime, the Russians have decided to leave one computer in each
system on standby to serve as an operational backup should any other
problems crop up.
The bottom line, Suffredini said, is that "it appears to everyone the
command-and-control-type computers are functioning just fine. In addition
to that, we're doing our planning to test the attitude control system.
Once we have confirmed the attitude control system can work, that will
confirm not only that the guidance, navigation and control set of
computers is working but also that the guidance, navigation and control
computers can talk to the command-and-control computers. ... So when that
test is complete, we will consider that the computers are up and healthy.
At that point, we will confer with our shuttle colleagues on a departure
date."
Atlantis astronauts Pat Forrester and Steve Swanson plan to stage a
six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Sunday to finish the activation of a
powerful rotary joint designed to slowly turn the newly installed S4 solar
arrays to keep them roughly face-on to the sun. A variety of other station
assembly get-ahead tasks are planned as well.
If all goes well, the astronauts will seal hatches between the station and
the shuttle on Monday and undock Tuesday for a return to Earth next
Thursday.
"So things are looking up very well," Suffredini said. "If all goes
according to plan and the checkout goes well, we will transfer as much
oxygen as our shuttle colleagues can afford to give us and then we will
... close the hatch Monday evening and have the shuttle depart on
Tuesday."
Engineers still don't know what changed in the space station's electrical
system that might have affected the operation of the secondary power
supply surge protectors. Suffredini said attention now is focusing on the
electrically charged plasma environment the station flies through and how
that electrical environment changes as the lab complex grows.
"We've had a lot of discussions with our Russian colleagues, who seem to
concur with our assessment that this is probably due to this potential,
the plasma environment we fly through, that as the station gets bigger
this potential will continue to grow," Suffredini said. "We've been
collecting a lot of data, we have instruments that measure this potential.
The Russians are very interested in that data. They have noted some
changes in their systems as we have grown. ... I think we're going to find
there's some sensitivity to the noise that is created as we change the
space station."
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