Le 23/10/2016 à 15:40, Jeff Findley a écrit :
Sounds like a possibly. But designing the thing to have a single point
of failure like this? Seems awfully silly.

If you look he
http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/i...images/2016/02
/exomars_2016_schiaparelli_descent_sequence_16_9/15826994-1-eng-GB/ExoMars_2016_Schiaparelli_descent_sequence_16_9.jp g

you see that radar turns on after the heat shield separates.

If that radar sent a wrong altitude to the software... mission was
doomed to failure.

P.S. CAREFUL with the URL being cutted in pieces by the old USENET system.