SOHO errors laid to controller overload, murky accountability

A joint European Space Agency/NASA review board has confirmed a string of human errors as the cause of last June's loss of communications with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and blamed the mistakes that left the spacecraft out of control at the Lagrangian Point on a combination of...

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