{"id":111746,"date":"2011-07-15T04:02:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a984609c709bea8e96b0c63a94f38495"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:02:39","slug":"crew-troubleshoots-general-purpose-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=111746","title":{"rendered":"Crew Troubleshoots General Purpose Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson has begun troubleshooting General Purpose Computer (GPC) 4, one of the four primary shuttle GPCs. GPC 4 was being used as the systems management computer when it failed at 6:07 p.m. EDT Thursday, generating an alarm that awakened the Atlantis crew. Ferguson configured GPC 2 as the systems management computer before going back to sleep 45 minutes later. A fifth GPC is loaded with backup software and operates independently, ready to take over in case of an endemic problem with the four primary computers.<\/p>\n<p>While troubleshooting is underway on GPC 4, GPCs 1 &amp; 2 are operating Atlantis&#8217; systems and GPC 3 is in a standby mode. The first step in today&#8217;s procedure is underway, transmitting the memory of GPC 4 to Mission Control for evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson has begun troubleshooting General Purpose Computer (GPC) 4, one of the four primary shuttle GPCs. GPC 4 was being used as the systems management computer when it failed at 6:07 p.m. EDT Thursday, generating an alarm that awakened the Atlantis crew. Ferguson configured GPC 2 as the systems management computer before going back to sleep 45 minutes later. A fifth GPC is loaded with backup software and operates independently, ready to take over in case of an endemic problem with the four primary computers.<\/p>\n<p>While troubleshooting is underway on GPC 4, GPCs 1 &amp; 2 are operating Atlantis&#8217; systems and GPC 3 is in a standby mode. The first step in today&#8217;s procedure is underway, transmitting the memory of GPC 4 to Mission Control for evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}