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Ariane is built by Airbus, Schiaparelli was built by Thales Alenia, two completely independent companies. Not sure why there's supposed to be a correlation, oth
by creshal 10y ago
Ariane is built by Airbus, Schiaparelli was built by Thales Alenia, two completely independent companies. Not sure why there's supposed to be a correlation, other than both were contracted by ESA.
- acqq 10y agoNobody claimed the same company did it, just that there are similarities in the way the software errors caused the destruction.
- votingprawn 10y ago> both were contracted by ESA. Yes I'm aware of how ESA works and who built what. But I would have hoped the common connection would have greater instilled the need for checking for these sorts of errors, if the Schiaparelli incident is as blutack theorised.
- projektinjohto 10y agoIt says on Thales webpage that their IMU is already onboard on Ariane 5. I don't know what IMU was on Schiaparelli. https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/aerospace/topaxyz-inertial-measurement-unit-imu https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/aerospace/topaxyz-i...