ボイジャー2号復旧

Updated May 20, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. PDT

Engineers have successfully corrected the memory on NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft by resetting a computer bit that had flipped. Reset commands were beamed up to the spacecraft yesterday, Wed., May 19, and engineering data received today confirm that the reset was successful. The Voyager team will continue monitoring the engineering data, and if the bit remains reset, commands to switch to the science data mode will be beamed up to Voyager 2 on Sat., May 22. Receipt of science data would then resume on Sun., May 23.

　めでたい。しかしJPL文化圏では、リセット命令はbeamed upされるものなのか。ちょっと楽しい。いや、細く絞った通信波を(地上から見て)上のほうに送るわけだから、これが本来の用法?