Recent content by Warren Taylor

As a retired electrical/software engineer who spent the last 20 years of my career in aerospace, I have HUGE problems with that MET setting issue. I have been involved in developing and testing a TON of software, and find it hard to believe that this problem could have crept through a properly...

As someone who developed and tested a fair amount of software for aerospace systems during my career, I do disagree a tiny bit. It should be "Learn to test".

Not quite correct, both Boeing and Spacex had NASA contracts to provide ISS crew transport services. I am too lazy to look them up, and need to get breakfast, but as I recall the Boeing chunk is something over four billion, while Spacex's is about half that. And of course the Falcon 9 was...

Are you nuts? The problem was with the CST-100 flight software, NOT the Atlas 5, which appeared to perform perfectly and had NOTHING to do with this problem!

As a retired electrical/software engineer who spent the last 20 years of my career in aerospace, I have HUGE problems with that MET setting issue. I have been involved in developing and testing a TON of software, and find it hard to believe that this problem could have crept through a properly...