Aug 27 1996
From The Space Library
The Galileo spacecraft lost some of its collected data when a problem with one of its computer processors caused a shutdown of nonessential systems. Project Manager William J. O'Neil said that much of the lost data was of little consequence to researchers, but that data from Galileo's continuous study of Jupiter's magnetic field had suffered a significant loss, creating an information gap of about one week. The episode, which occurred in the midst of NASA's string of impressive research achievements, highlighted the difficulty of directing a data-gathering probe thousands of miles from Earth's surface.
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