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The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day | "The software that should have pointed Lunar Trailblazer’s solar panels toward the Sun instead pointed them 180 degrees away from the Sun."


NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite was supposed to map water across the surface of the Moon, but glaring design and testing errors killed it.

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