{"id":84585,"date":"2011-07-04T22:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-uses-dirty-hack-to-revive-endangered-cluster-satellite\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:46:41","slug":"esa-uses-dirty-hack-to-revive-endangered-cluster-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-uses-dirty-hack-to-revive-endangered-cluster-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Uses \u2018Dirty Hack\u2019 to Revive Endangered Cluster Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-04-11] The <b>European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA) has recovered a four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss by using \u201can unorthodox, dirty hack,\u201d the agency announced July 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The four Cluster satellites were launched in 2000 and were orbiting Earth in a tight formation until last March when the Cluster\u2019s number 3 satellite, Samba, failed to switch on, causing controllers to lose contact with the satellite. Each of the satellites carries an identical payload to monitor Earth\u2019s space environment and its interaction with solar wind.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWith no status data and no response from the instrument, we suspected either that the device\u2019s five power switches were locked closed or a failure caused by an electrical short circuit, one of the most dangerous faults on any satellite,\u201d ESA Cluster Operations Manager J\u00fcrgen Volpp said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; Volpp said the solution to the problem was based on a dirty hack (meaning any non-standard procedure) via a series of commands that helped flipped the power switches on and bring the satellite back to life. \u201cCluster has since returned to normal operation and measures are being taken to prevent this failure from happening again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-04-11] The European Space Agency (ESA) has recovered a four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss by using \u201can unorthodox, dirty hack,\u201d the agency announced July 1. &nbsp;&nbsp; The four Cluster satellites were launched in 2000 and were orbiting Earth in a tight formation until last March when the Cluster\u2019s number 3 satellite, Samba, failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}