Thursday, February 02, 2012
Software bug behind Phobos crash !?
The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced the cause of the Phobos-Grunt space probe failure on Tuesday: it was a software malfunction in its onboard computer.
The use of standard 90nm commercial microcircuits instead of radiation-protected 200nm parts may be the most likely cause of the sudden failure of the equipment (and the word "counterfeit" goes to support this version).Sending a five-billion ruble research project to the bottom of the Pacific because of savings on a Taiwanese microchip (or a mistake in poorly designed software) is too costly even for a leading space power, which many still call Russia out of habit.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: THeir proprietary software was bad and late than, they used commercial processor and ...
The use of standard 90nm commercial microcircuits instead of radiation-protected 200nm parts may be the most likely cause of the sudden failure of the equipment (and the word "counterfeit" goes to support this version).Sending a five-billion ruble research project to the bottom of the Pacific because of savings on a Taiwanese microchip (or a mistake in poorly designed software) is too costly even for a leading space power, which many still call Russia out of habit.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: THeir proprietary software was bad and late than, they used commercial processor and ...
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