Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft

Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by jupiter90000 on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:43PM (#11603477)

I was thinking more like parties interested in sabotaging the line of research due to personal vendettas against the scientists who would gain from this success, or those who have ideological reasons to block what may be discovered using the technology. I realize this may be far-fetched conjecture, but I'm just sharing my thoughts.

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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by xioxox on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:58PM (#11603545)

Sorry, but that's crazy. I was previously involved in this mission. The whole community was really excited to see the first results from the soft X-ray calorimeter. Furthermore, there was going to be an open call for proposals for observations, for any groups to apply to.

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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by jupiter90000 on Saturday April 30, 2016 @05:20PM (#11603649)

Thanks for sharing that. As an aside, I am glad you put that information about the Veusz visualization software in your profile text; I had never heard of it before and want to check it out some more, looks nice.

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