Starliner Sonar giving the crew fits

[Explorer]

It's actually very simple.

Boeing used electronics from a scrapped car to save money. When they reinstalled the autopilot on Starliner the seatbelt reminder accidentally came back as well and is now beeping. 

[rst]

NBC News (I was worried because the tease before commercials referred to NASA being in a panic or something like that...)

A broadcast which only raises another question... why is the person reporting this story on a windswept beach?

[kdhilliard]

NBC News (I was worried because the tease before commercials referred to NASA being in a panic or something like that...)
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  https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_oOnK3T5A&t=44m18s
44:18 --  Hi Rob!!!

[pathfinder_01]

Ugh, I was hoping someone would have to jam it like in Spaceballs.

[rdale]

Canadian national news threw in an Apollo 13 clip

https://globalnews.ca/video/10731843/nasa-eases-concerns-after-strange-noise-reported-on-boeing-starliner/

[logicaltuvok]

First post but was interested by this. The signal frequency is centered around 440-460Hz. 440Hz (A4) is a standard NIST tone used for transmission tests like WWV.


So I am inclined to believe they left some 1Hz beat 440ish Hz test signal pinging by mistake.

Obviously frequency content of the signal is trash since it's gone through a few resamples, but here's a quick plot attached of the signal posted to X from Starliner.

[rdale]

NBC News (I was worried because the tease before commercials referred to NASA being in a panic or something like that...)

A broadcast which only raises another question... why is the person reporting this story on a windswept beach?

Fox35 had their reporter doing this LIVE story while STANDING IN THE RAIN in Brevard County labeled "Fox35 Mission Control"

#Sigh

[VSECOTSPE]

Calypso could have a second life as a radio telescope for pulsars.  That’s SGR 0418.  See 1:28 mark below:

[gongora]

Loren Grush talking about this on the Off Nominal podcast was kinda amusing


Note: I've been told this link will actually go to the right place in the video at 32:02:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQqjghKuUMc&t=1922s

[Twark_Main]

Loren Grush talking about this on the Off Nominal podcast was kinda amusing
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Note: I've been told this link will actually go to the right place in the video at 32:02:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQqjghKuUMc&t=1922s

This embedded video should go right to 32:02: