NASA Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

w0ot!

I feel so much better now. Distance & speed -- tricky stuff.

[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.

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More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1965775

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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