Why the Mars probe [accident investigation].

On 23 September, through a series of still-baffling errors, flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a California Institute of Technology facility under contract to NASA, sent erroneous steering commands to the Mars Climate Observer as it neared the target planet. Obeying blindly like al...

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Pubblicato in:IEEE spectrum 36, 12 (1999).
Autore principale: Oberg, J.
Natura: Articolo
Lingua:English
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