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Why ISS Computers Failed

Posted by kdawson on from the triply-redundant-is-not-foolproof dept.

Geoffrey.landis writes "It was only a small news item four months ago: all three of the Russian computers that control the International Space Station failed shortly after the Space Shuttle brought up a new solar array. But why did they fail? James Oberg, writing in IEEE Spectrum, details the detective work that led to a diagnosis." The article has good insights into the role the ISS plays as a laboratory for US-Russian technology cooperation — something that is likely to be crucial in any manned Mars mission.

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  1. Re:The REAL reason they failed by Fizzl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shut the hell up. You'r obviously a MS shill! ;)

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  2. Re:Urgh. by MACC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We had the same problem with people from JPL.
    Our inferior eurotrash hardware was faulty,
    sure, everybody knew that.
    Took about a year of talking to extract someones
    head from his rear and get him to examine his
    driver code.
    Or read a bit in Rutan's Book on building
    Voyager.

    I think it is a US trait to have navelcentric
    biased views of nonUS peoples abilities.

    There are limits to being patriotic and unbiased
    at the same time.