/sci/ - Science & Math

>"it was foreign sabotage"
>"it was an American radar on the Marshall Islands"
>"it was counterfeit chips"
>"it was cosmic radiation (in LEO, somehow)"
>On 6 February 2012, the commission investigating the mishap concluded that Fobos-Grunt mission failed because of "a programming error which led to a simultaneous reboot of two working channels of an onboard computer". The craft's rocket pack never fired due to the computer reboot, leaving the craft stranded in Earth orbit.[74][75] Although the specific failure was identified, experts suggest it was the culmination of poor quality control,[76][77] lack of testing,[78] security issues and corruption.[79]