NASA Team Gives FUSE Spacecraft Triple Brain Transplant

NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite was given a new lease on life following the successful implementation of new software in three computers that work together to control the precision pointing of the telescope.

"We have uploaded new flight software, and can operate FUSE with any number of gyroscopes, including none, if the time comes that all of our gyroscopes fail," said Dr. George Sonneborn, FUSE project scientist from Goddard. "This is a significant conceptual and technical development that brings a new tool to the designers of new and existing satellites, and bodes well for continued FUSE operations," Sonneborn added.

For the past two years, engineers and scientists at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Orbital
Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Va., Honeywell Technical Solutions, Inc., Morris Township, N.J., GSFC, and the Canadian Space Agency, Quebec, have worked together to change the flight software used to point the telescope for science observations.

For more on the FUSE satellite, go to: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-
release/releases/2003/h03-243.htm

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