Craters on the Moon? Who Knew?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

At least it was not a hardware problem.

Japanese moon spaceship software confused by crater

Apparently, while trying to land, the spaceship went into free-fall from five kilometres up and created a new crater on the moon.

It was all down to a last-minute decision to the touchdown location to a crater. The crater's steep sides confused the onboard software because it did not really expect them to be there.

Needs a human in the loop?

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Needs a human in the loop?

Just better software. (... or a human. Same difference. )

 

[theprestige]

"Fudzilla" dot com. Sure.

 

[Steve]

Just better software. (... or a human. Same difference. )

The software in 1969 was reliable enough.

 

[Trebuchet]

Scott Manley video on it:

 

[Skeptical Greg]

The software in 1969 was reliable enough.

Not enough to stop them from taking over manually before touch down..

 

[Mike!]

The softwetware in 1969 was reliable enough.

FTFY.

 

[Steve]

FTFY.

Nope. Software:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton.gif

 

[Skeptical Greg]

I think you missed the point... ( Or I did...)

 

[Steve]

I think you missed the point... ( Or I did...)

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Scott Manley video on it:

Incomplete testing then.