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Russia says satellite launch failure due to programming error
- nkhodyunya 9y agoMany bad things happen in Russia as an outcome of Putin's corrupted regime. Enjoy your government.
- dang 9y agoThis comment breaks the HN guidelines. Please don't post political flamebait here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Dylan16807 9y agoSince the article neglected to say how it failed, or how it affected the other satellites, it looks like the rocket never quite reached orbit.
- coolspot 9y agoThe rocket carrying the satellites had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, he said, saying it had been given bearings for take-off from a different cosmodrome - Baikonur - which Moscow leases from Kazakhstan.
- Dylan16807 9y agoThat's the cause, not the effect. Such a mistake could have ended with the rocket in the wrong orbit. The article is ambiguous.
- ibogunov 9y agoYou should read it as: "some programmer was fired instead of management", just a message to cover their asses.
- pmontra 9y ago> The rocket carrying the satellites had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, he said, saying it had been given bearings for take-off from a different cosmodrome More a failure in communication than a programming error. Also a failure in testing and reviewing procedures.
- realworldview 9y agoYes. Unfortunately, the distinction eludes many, and most critically the Journalists reporting such information.