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AI6YR Ben
AI6YR Ben
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

Ooof, this smells of a sign/math error somewhere, ouch.

"...the software that should have pointed Lunar Trailblazer’s solar panels toward the Sun instead pointed them 180 degrees away from the Sun...."

https://gizmodo.com/the-stupidest-glitch-imaginable-killed-a-72-million-lunar-mission-in-a-single-day-2000728962

#software #math #space

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The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite was supposed to map water across the surface of the Moon, but glaring design and testing errors killed it.
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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago

@ai6yr OMG you are probably so right.

I have to think this is the kind of thing usually caught in say, rigorous QA and model tests. Which likely did not survive the last several years of "why do we need all these coders ..." stupidity.

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