NEW YORK, 23 August. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Kachalin /. US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to partially restore the connection to the space observatory STEREO-B, designed to observe the sun. Communication with the device was lost 22 months ago, informed by NASA on Monday.
The most recent attempt to establish a connection, “lasted for a month,” and undertaken with the help of search and detection of objects in remote areas Deep Space Network Space. This system August 21 helped identify “failure in the downlink” “board – Earth”.
NASA experts studied the problem for more than seven hours and then automatically reduced voltage high-voltage transmitter unit to “save energy” . “Mission Management Team plans to hold several sessions recovery, to explore the operation of the observatory, to fix the height of the control system of flight and see how work reliably on-board equipment”, – explained in the NASA
Loss of communication with the device was preceded by a test. one element STEREO-B control. He drives a complicated restart on-board equipment, the signals do not come from the Earth more than 72 consecutive hours. This means that NASA “does not see” the device and blocks the Sun in touch with him.
Steam observatory STEREO-A is operating normally.
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