Published 02:52 IST, July 31st 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 spaceship facing technical issues, team running 'full health assessment'
Just a few hours after its launch, NASA has announced that Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying its Perseverance rover to Mars, is facing some technical glitches
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Just a few hours after its launch, NASA has anunced that Mars 2020, ship carrying its Perseverance rover to Mars, is facing some technical glitches and is running on essential systems only.
As per reports, on Thursday (local time), NASA said that recent data indicates that craft has entered 'safe mode' possibly because a part of craft was a little colder than expected while it was in Earth's show. Mars 2020 has left Earth's show and temperatures are w rmal, ncy ded.
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'Completing full health assessment'
According to NASA statement, "When a craft enters safe mode, all but essential systems are turned off until it receives new commands from mission control. An interplanetary launch is fast-paced and dynamic, so a craft is designed to put itself in safe mode if its onboard computer perceives conditions are t within its preset parameters."
It ded that Mars 2020 mission is completing a full health assessment on craft at moment and is working to return to a minal configuration for Mars journey.
As per reports, mission's deputy project manr Matt Wallace said that ship's safe mode was t overly concerning while ding that team is working through that telemetry and checking rest of craft health.
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Im Credits: NASA
02:52 IST, July 31st 2020