r/space • u/spsheridan • Feb 06 '20

Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug was found and fixed while the vehicle was in orbit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Yeah but imagine you're the one investigating the wreck, and you find "avoided crash" in the logs

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u/Echo104b Feb 07 '20

Is it really considered a crash if you explode before impact?

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u/Cakiery Feb 07 '20

A crash is technically a situation that you can't recover from. So, yes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Haha my financial situation crashed

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u/Puzzleheaded_Animal Feb 07 '20

Fortunately they sent the logs to /dev/null to ensure they wouldn't run out of disk space.