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Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure. (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by intelati@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (2^6) and was caught by a 2^7s check (127s)

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mistakes happen. For example, may I introduce you to NASA's 125 million dollar Mars Climate Orbiter, which spent most of a year traveling to the Red Planet before ignominiously burning up because a Lockheed Martin programmer decided to write the thruster-firing calculations in Imperial units (feet and pounds) instead of following the specifications to use metric units (meters and kilograms).

[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, I remember that one clearly. We were all pretty pissed off about it.