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Re:Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander by riffraff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:44AM (#12787395)
the focus of this mission was the orbiter, the lander was basically "ah, we can fit this too", that's why it had minimal capabilities.
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Re:Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander by Pigo on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:51AM (#12787475)
I get it, and I'm definitely not knocking any endeavor as being trivial. I'm just curious, in general, why this isn't more of a focus. Possibly for selfish reasons.
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