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abcd_f
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Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to E...
A fun fact is that two Soviet Mars probes missed their trajectories because of the same software bug in the onboard navigation firmware. There's also a
legend
that the bug was a mistyped comma in the Fortran code.
pklausler
on May 14, 2025
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