Tile damage vs autopilot software error.
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While we're all doing the armchair-quarterback, hindsight-speculating on what caused the breakup, let me propose another scenario.
Assume that yes, there was significant damage to the insulating tiles, but it wasn't enough to really make a burn-thru happen to be the primary culprit, but instead that there was significant aerodynamic drag imposed to make the autopilot software which controls the aft RCS thrusters, to try to correct the ship's pitch roll and yaw errors. Imagine next that the amount of additional drag on the left wing is substantial enough such that the software wasn't written to accommodate that wide of a range of correction and due to bug/lack of design consideration in that piece of software, that the RCS thrusters either undercorrected or overcorrected, and the nose of the ship got pointed too far off-center of the relative wind (now that the ship is just getting into enough atmosphere for there to exist a relative wind). Once past past that critical yaw-off-center-range point then the ship suddenly enters a violent flat spin and flys apart. In essence a software problem or deficiency could have been a likely candidate. You can probably be sure that a theory similar to this will be rigorously tested.
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While we're all doing the armchair-quarterback, hindsight-speculating on what caused the breakup, let me propose another scenario.
Assume that yes, there was significant damage to the insulating tiles, but it wasn't enough to really make a burn-thru happen to be the primary culprit, but instead that there was significant aerodynamic drag imposed to make the autopilot software which controls the aft RCS thrusters, to try to correct the ship's pitch roll and yaw errors. Imagine next that the amount of additional drag on the left wing is substantial enough such that the software wasn't written to accommodate that wide of a range of correction and due to bug/lack of design consideration in that piece of software, that the RCS thrusters either undercorrected or overcorrected, and the nose of the ship got pointed too far off-center of the relative wind (now that the ship is just getting into enough atmosphere for there to exist a relative wind). Once past past that critical yaw-off-center-range point then the ship suddenly enters a violent flat spin and flys apart. In essence a software problem or deficiency could have been a likely candidate. You can probably be sure that a theory similar to this will be rigorously tested.
THIS CODE IS YOUR CODE - you know what tune to sing it to
This code is your code, this code is my code,
To California from the south of Finland,
From the GNU compiler, to the ELF binaries,
This code was made for you and me.
As I was trolling the threads on Slashdot,
In Unreal Tournament, I need an aimbot,
I saw before me the new KDE,
This code was made for you and me.
This code is your code, this code is my code,
To California from the south of Finland,
From the GNU compiler, to the ELF binaries,
This code was made for you and me.
Downloaded sourcecode, unzipped the tarballs,
Dot slash configure, then make-installs,
And all around me, my systems showed me,
This code was made for you and me.
This code is your code, this code is my code,
To California from the south of Finland,
From the GNU compiler, to the ELF binaries,
This code was made for you and me.