Salsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along
The European Space Agency has bid farewell to the Cluster II spacecraft with a final set of commands to show that engineers are indeed human.. However, the mission controllers had time to upload one final command sequence before Salsa was destroyed in the Earth's atmosphere.on Mastodon:"As a final action, a series of dummy commands were uplinked to Salsa, each containing the name of one of the active mission operations team.
McCaughrean included images of the request and the current Cluster team, some of whom were likely still in full-time education when the mission launched. The four spacecraft were designed to fly in formation and study the Earth's magnetosphere. Thanks to some impressive creativity by the engineering team behind the spacecraft, the mission was extended from two years to well over two decades before the end finally came.
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