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Software error prveneted Hayabusa firing bullet

Submit on Monday, November 29th, 2010 22:57

Japan’s Hayabusa probe, which landed on asteroid Itokawa in 2005, failed to fire a metallic bullet to collect debris. The glitch was now traced back to a software error.
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