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Article #8918Re: Soviet Phobos II probe fails just before final approach to moon
From: John McKernan
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 09:51
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1989 09:51
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Friday's LA Times had some interesting speculation as to the underlying causes of the problems with the Phobos probes. They said the probes were the first of a new type manufactured by a government contractor independent of the scientists at the "Soviet Space Research Institute". The Times said that these basic probes (to which the various experiments and other unique hardware are added) have poor communication and computer facilities, and little redundancy, and that they are the cause of the phobos problems. Appearantly the USA is not the only country which has problems with lowest bid hardware from independent government contractors. John L. McKernan. Student, Computer Science, Cal Poly S.L.O. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!polyslo!jmckerna From: jmckerna@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John McKernan) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Soviet Phobos II probe fails just before final approach to moon Message-ID: <9914@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 2 Apr 89 09:51:03 GMT References: <8904010551.AA16140@ll-vlsi.arpa> <13665@jumbo.dec.com> Reply-To: jmckerna@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John McKernan) Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 12