Origins of ISS Computer Problems

Space Station: Internal NASA Reports Explain Origins of June Computer Crisis, IEEE Spectrum

“Aboard the International Space Station, the three Russian computers that control the station’s orientation have been happily humming away now for several weeks. And that’s proof that the crisis in June that crippled the ISS and bloodied the U.S.-Russian partnership that supports it, has been solved. … The critical computer systems, it turned out, had been designed, built, and operated incorrectly–and the failure was inevitable. Only being so relatively close to Earth, in range of resupply and support missions, saved the spacecraft from catastrophe.”