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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft


Hitomi spacecraft

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is investigating the factors that led to Hitomi's demise.

Credit: STR/AFP/Getty

Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by a basic engineering error.

From Nature
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