snidely wrote:
Tom Cuddihy wrote:
Ed Kyle wrote:
Another possible Plesetsk failure today (110/8/05),
of a Rockot/Briz KM carrying ESA's Cryosat, although
this has not been confirmed yet. ITAR TASS had this
report, which said,
[...]
It is interesting that the error apparently took place in a system that
obviously has to be specifically altered for orbital launch vice
warhead delivery--you would think they would be especially careful in
those areas...

BBC News has this report:

quote
"We confirm from the information we have from the State Commission that
there was a problem with the software flight control system in the
Breeze upper stage of the launcher," European Space Agency
spokesperson, Simonetta Cheli, told the BBC News website.
/quote
at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4381840.stm

Software strikes again!

Yeah, I know. Software doesn't kill rockets, people
who use software kill rockets.

- Ed Kyle