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Beagle 2 Failure Analyzed
InsomniaCity writes "An inquiry into the loss of the Beagle 2 Mars probe in December will criticize the management of the project and the testing of the lander, says the BBC. Following the loss, the European Space Agency (Esa) and the British National Space Centre established a Commission of Inquiry, that are now recommending 19 things we need to remember for the future, from project management and fund raising, to high altitude testing of the parachute system. The commission, however, did not pinpoint any particular technical failure."
They are recommending 19 things we need to remember for the future, including "testing of the parachute system".
Am I the only one who can't believe they didn't think of this before?
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Which is a more popular topic in a bar (or anywhere, really), the search for the Higgs Boson, or 'Who will win the league'?
When it's his turn to buy the drinks, the search for Higgs Boson wins hands down.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
If they'd have named it Siamese, I'm sure it would have landed right.
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A couple of geeks from slashdot should have checked their documentation before they even built Beagle II ... They may have succeeded :)
Obviously, they should have named it Slashdot I ...
Never underestimate the power of idiots in large groups
They should have made the code open source. THAT would have solved it!
I can see it now: "b2Landing is software to successfully land a spacecraft on a distant planet. Development status: 0 - Borked/Need Money"
-Dizzle
"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
Do you mean this? It can land on the Moon, Earth, and Jupiter! Only Mars needs to be implemented and then the ESA could use it!
[joke]I think the point is clear, Bush saw that the British were going to get there first. So he took it down.[/joke]
Food and teeth excluded.
-Dizzle
"I most likely AM so interested in myself."
Why do "U" write "you" as "U"?
The more you know, the less you understand.
...the British scientific information ministers finally admitted it failed?? I thought they were holding out hope until the 2038 rollover.
Next time, don't program it to land in a crater. NASA was lucky that their similarly boneheaded failure to include filesystem cleanup code in their Mars landers was repairable.
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