After floating accusations against U.S. military radars, flawed foreign parts and space radiation, Russian space officials have concluded a software glitch caused the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe. Phobos-Grunt pictured during pre-launch testing. Credit: NPO Lavochkin The commission investigating the mishap says Phobos-Grunt's $165 million mission was halted by "a programming error which led to a simultaneous reboot of two working channels of an onboard computer," according to RIA Novosti, a Russian news agency. The reboot put the spacecraft in safe mode, according to the report...
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