Computer Error Drained MGS Batteries, Panel Finds
An internal review board formed after NASA lost contact with the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) last fall is putting final touches on its recommendations for preventing a repeat of the failure, apparently caused when an erroneous computer command sent to the spacecraft in June 2006 triggered a "complex...
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