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Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by blutack on Thursday November 24, 2016 @06:01AM (#13029680)
Just so people are aware that ESA weren't necessarily directly responsible for writing the software, the RTPU (the computer handling the landing sequencing) seems to have been outsourced to a company called Terma (via Thales).

I can't figure out if Terma wrote the landing software, but it seems likely from their press release [1] and they have the relevant specialties.

1: https://www.terma.com/space/exomars/

Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by Fjolle on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:34AM (#13029970)
Terma has said to danish media that they only developed the hardware, and had nothing to do with the software.

The software might have been outsourced to another company.

Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by gaius on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:36AM (#13029979)
When will people learn not to outsource anything important?!
Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by NikolaeVarius on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:18AM (#13030167)
Seriously.

Look at NASA, they definitely haven't outsourced anything at all. They use all in house hardware and software to launch satellites or send astronauts to the ISS.

Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by kuschku on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:37AM (#13030827)
Eh, is this sarcasm?

NASA has outsourced things since the original Apollo program, massively.

NASA has never brought a single astronaut into space on a fully NASA-made rocket. Especially with parts like these, they're commonky outsourced.

Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by NikolaeVarius on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:59AM (#13030926)
Of course it was sarcasm, I thought it was obvious. NASA outsources everything these days. I was responding to the idea that you should never outsource important things when EVERYTHING is outsourced, including astornaut launches
Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by Gmo on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:35AM (#13030490)
Not to be snarky, but NASA also had its fair share of failures. I mean ... it's rocket science after all.
Re:Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress by zeroer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:57AM (#13031277)
ESA didn't write the software, but surely they're responsible.