Polar Lander Leg Snafu Discovery a Fluke

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Polar Lander at March 30, 2000 12:00 PM

A software glitch that likely doomed the Mars Polar Lander might have done the same to NASA’s next spacecraft to alight on the Red Planet had the problem not been uncovered by accident, a Lockheed Martin Astronautics official said Wednesday.