The cause of the crash of Cryosat satellite has been found

The European Space Agency focused on working for Cryosat project within 5 years but still failed. The cause was found and published yesterday.

The European Space Agency (ESA), after relying on a Russian accident investigation report, said a bug in Software on the top floor of the rocket launched on October 8. made the satellite study gas. Post Cryosat falls into the sea.

Accordingly, the missile control unit cannot deliver the necessary commands to turn off the engine in the second phase so that the third phase, the satellite cannot be separated, has exploded. .

With some measures proposed, the Russian space agency now wants to avoid software that may fail in the future.

The Cryosat project has been working in Europe for 5 years at a cost of about 135 million Euro. Cryosat satellites are planned to be put on space to collect all the facts of global climate change. ESA hopes that by 2008 Europe will be able to launch a new satellite to study the climate.

According to Reuters