Faulty Software May Have Doomed Mars Orbiter
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| "We think that the failure was due to a software load we sent up in
| June of last year," NASA Watch quoted McNamee as saying. "This software
| tried to synch up two flight processors. Two addresses were incorrect
| -- two memory addresses were overwritten. As the geometry evolved, we
| drove the [solar] arrays against a hard stop and the spacecraft
| went into safe mode. The radiator for the battery pointed at the
| Sun, the temperature went up, and battery failed. But this should
| be treated as preliminary."
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