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Other than the rocky first flight of SpaceX Starship, I believe spacecraft failures are now dominated by software bugs. The hardware seems to be a known enginee
by cratermoon 3y ago
Other than the rocky first flight of SpaceX Starship, I believe spacecraft failures are now dominated by software bugs. The hardware seems to be a known engineering quantity, but bugs in guidance and control systems suggest that autonomous spacecraft control is still a WIP.