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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

#DESIGNWest: "Mars ate my spacecraft"

Hear tales of woe and wonder when billion dollar spacecraft fly to their doom as a result of simple software safeguards that programmers skipped. Don't be a bad programmer--learn from your colleagues mistakes in the DESIGN-West session Mars Ate My Spacecraft: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


The Clementine mission to fly from the moon to a nearby asteroid was just one failure of many caused by overworked embedded software teams that did not write the code to use their watchdog timers.
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