Re: NASA Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Fergie wrote:



> [snip]
>
> A robotic NASA spacecraft designed to rendezvous with an orbiting
> satellite instead crashed into its target, according to a summary of the
> investigation released Monday.
>
> Investigators blamed the collision on faulty navigational data that
> caused the DART spacecraft to believe that it was backing away from its
> target when it was actually bearing down on it.
>
> "The inaccurate perception of its distance and speed … prevented DART
> from taking effective action to avoid a collision," the summary said.

I get exactly the same when I'm alcohol-fuelled.

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