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Japanese can't get their maths right, Venus probe lost
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/08akatsuki/ "We have found that the orbiter was not injected into the planned orbit as a result of orbit estimation," In other words: we didn't get the maths right and fired the thrusters at the wrong time... This is simply embarrasing! Why didn't they ask NASA or ESA to verify their calculations? Now they'll have to wait six more years for another attempt and it's unlikely the craft will still be functioning then. |
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