> How Mars Global Surveyor was lost:
> 
> http://planetary.org/news/2007/0413_Human_and_Spacecraft_Error
> s_Together.html
> 
> in light of the recent postings on how to create bug-free software, I 
> thought this might be of interest.

The bold text that starts the article is IMHO misleading: "resulted from
mistakes made by both the human operators and the spacecraft's onboard
fault protection software." The rest of the text does not mention any
error in the on-board software, only errouneous parameters upload from
earth. Pure human operator errors.

The loss of the first Ariane 5 is often atributed to "a software error",
which is equally misleading. It a sence it was an operator too, although
the operator in this case was the project management.

Wouter van Ooijen

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