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Russia lost a rocket because the computer was programmed for wrong cosmodrome
- hdtl 9y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821671
- sbierwagen 9y agoBlogspam. Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/this-weeks-failed-russian-rocket-had-a-pretty-bad-programming-error/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/this-weeks-failed-ru... Russian spaceflight hardware used to be exceptionally reliable, but they've had a really bad string of launch failures since 2010: https://spacepolicyonline.com/pages/images/stories/List%20of%20Russian%20Space%20Launch%20Failures%20Since%20Dec%202010%20as%20of%20June%204%202017.pdf https://spacepolicyonline.com/pages/images/stories/List%20of...