Did Bad Software Botch DART's Mission?
Editor’s note: Word has it that one of the things being pursued by NASA MSFC’s DART Mishap Investigation Board in its investigation of what went wrong with DART is a software change that NASA MSFC managers forced on the mission’s contractors just 2 weeks before launch. The change supposedly had to do with the software that recalculates cold gas depletion based on usage during the mission. It would seem that when DART’s computer thought there was not enough gas left it actually still 30%. Stay Tuned.