The Clementine mission to fly from the moon to a nearby asteroid was just one failure of many caused by overworked embedded software teams that did not write the code to use their watchdog timers.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
#DESIGNWest: "Mars ate my spacecraft"
Hear tales of woe and wonder when billion dollar spacecraft fly to their doom as a result of simple software safeguards that programmers skipped. Don't be a bad programmer--learn from your colleagues mistakes in the DESIGN-West session Mars Ate My Spacecraft: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
The Clementine mission to fly from the moon to a nearby asteroid was just one failure of many caused by overworked embedded software teams that did not write the code to use their watchdog timers.
The Clementine mission to fly from the moon to a nearby asteroid was just one failure of many caused by overworked embedded software teams that did not write the code to use their watchdog timers.
