SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks

RogerRoast writes "The first private spaceship launch to the International Space Station has been delayed, possibly by at least a week, the vehicle's makers announced Monday. The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX was set to launch its Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket April 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida." The article quotes SpaceX lead Elon Musk's twittered explanation: "Am pushing launch back approx a week to do more testing on Dragon docking code. New date pending coordination with @NASA."

Comments

Re:Sure...

[azalin]

Maybe the just noted half the libraries were in metric

Where is their spirit of adventure?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Cowards!!! Launch early, launch often. (Or just give the coders the honor of being test pilots. That will make those code monkeys program it real good the first time...)

Re:Yikes!

[Like2Byte]

heh.

Reminds me of that song, "99 instances of bugs in the code..."

99 instances of bugs in the code...
99 instances of bugs, ....
code one out, mark it out,
106 instances of bugs in the code...
106 instances of bugs in the code...
106 instances of bugs, ....

Did they try...

[Troyusrex]

updating to the latest version and rebooting? That's what vendors always tell us to do the second anything doesn't work perfectly.

Re:Sure...

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Yes, but which half?

An imperial half.

Re:Better to fix it first

[jamesbulman]

I've checked in the fix...

//bugfix: Stop abort code messing up docking
//if(doAbort)
//{
// DoAbort();
//}

if it were open source

[nimbius]

im sure you'd see git comments like
--removed sound-activated LED code
restored sound activation code. needed for espresso.py

--removed callbacks, class for rancilio espresso maker. please stop this.
--added pizza ordering support for dominos, stub for pizza hut

--removed food related code for pizza, chinese food, references to 'the luther'.
-- removed orbital re-entry positioning code. two can play this game
-- re-added orbital code. this is not funny. please stop.
-- added DMX512 dance-floor lighting control module, arduino support for twitter potted plant control