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Viewed another way, a successful bugfix brings a $2.5B instrument back to life.

• Ididntdothis 7y ago
  And it demonstrates that the design allowed bug fixes while the rover is on another planet. I view this as big success for the engineering. They did a great job. It’s more important to have the ability to fix bugs than avoiding bugs.
  • danimal88 7y ago
    Assuming your bug fix mechanism is bug free...
    • Ididntdothis 7y ago
      True. That's where a lot of the quality effort should go. Also keep this part as simple as possible.