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NASA loses contact with ISS after power outage in Texas, uses backup system for first time (www.euronews.com)

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago

The incident was linked to upgrade work that was underway in the Johnson Space Center’s building.

[-] NoGoodDevGuy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Huston you have a problem...

[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe ERCOT should get their heads out of their asses and connect to the national grid.

[-] june@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

while you're not wrong, it's not relevant in this case.

[-] BB69@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It had nothing to do with ERCOT.

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 8 points 1 year ago

That isn't going to help anything when the failure was inside of NASAs facility.....

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not with that shithead governor.

[-] codybrumfield@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago

I don’t think Texas should be allowed to use hamster wheels for critical electricity generation anymore. Hamsters die way too often. And while we’re at it, we should ban adults from wearing cowboy costumes until we figure out if they’re groomers or actual cowboys. Kids won’t be safe until they know which adults have ponies and which are just pretending and up to no good.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

As fun as it is to shit on ERCOT, this was due to internal issues at Johnson space center.
There were upgrades going on, with backup plans in place.
They were notified of the outage via roscosmos within 20m, and were running from the backup system within 90m.
All in the article