Russia says 'software failure' caused thruster misfire at space station

[Admin]

Yesterday's unexpected tilting of the International Space Station was caused by a software glitch, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.

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[FromBelow]

Sure. And those drill holes in the Russian modules some time back were just a QC incident.

 

[sam85geo]

Anybody know how software "fails"?

 

[COLGeek]

Anybody know how software "fails"?

Aside from this incident, software fails all the time. Not that uncommon an occurrence.

 

[sam85geo]

Just to be contrary. My software "failed" because the logic I encoded was incorrect, erroneous or backdated. Other kinds of software "failures" are related to damaged code. e.g.: flipped bits, the incorrect code version, and hardware misreads of the code. I'm simply raising an eyebrow at the generic, misnomer term "software failure" for there might be an underlying problem that needs to be fixed quickly. Fortunately, there was no harm.

 

[Pogo]

Just a good thing it didn’t fire up the mains, but, they weren’t working anyway, so I heard.

 

[Emely Morris]

It's good that they successfully go through all the problems. But it would be worth working to reduce them.

 

[Pogo]

It is my understanding that they have added a line item to the post docking check-list . . .’change underwear’.