For about two hours yesterday, investors were unable to see how fast or far the Nasdaq composite was falling because of a communications line malfunction.
Although this trip was plagued by several malfunctions and two communications satellites were misdirected, Bruce McCandless's performance of the first space walk without a lifeline and the successful return of the shuttle to its home base were regarded as major accomplishments.
In 1994, a solar storm caused major malfunctions to two communications satellites, disrupting television and radio services throughout Canada.
The reason for this phenomenon is not entirely clear and it is possible that some FGD tend to share similar patho-physiological mechanisms such as abnormal visceral sensitivity, abnormal intestinal motility and malfunctioning brain-gut communications.
In the last two months alone, wilderness firefighters and Forest Service employees across the West repeatedly complained about problems with communications, in some cases pleading that malfunctions be fixed before something terrible happened.
It is unclear why investigators appear so certain that the two communications systems were disabled deliberately, rather than malfunctioning.
--An electrical malfunction disabled the autopilot system, along with the radio communications system.
Space radiation poses a serious threat to several human activities, such as high radiation doses for astronauts, adverse effects on aircrew health, artificial satellite malfunctions, and the disruption of high-frequency radio wave communications in high-latitude regions.
A similar malfunction with the Briz-M booster last August resulted in the loss of another communications satellite, which floated in space until March, when Russian scientists redirected it into the Pacific Ocean.
Immediately prior to the start of the game, a reactor malfunction on the Unity spacecraft wakes the crew and colonists early and irreparably severs communications with Earth.
