Fobos-Grunt killed by radiation-susceptible COTS components?
Submit on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 22:58
The head of Russia’s space agency said that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a “low-quality imported component” may have been vulnerable to the radiation.
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