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Updated A software error on the part of Firefly Aerospace doomed Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Steerable Antenna (ESA) demonstrator to a shorter-than-expected orbital life following a botched Alpha launch.

It was the fourth for the Alpha, and after Firefly finally registered a successful launch a few months earlier in September, initial indications looked good.

A recent example was the near disastrous first launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, where iffy code could have led, in NASA parlance, to “spacecraft loss.”

In a recent interview with The Register, former Voyager scientist Garry Hunt questioned if the commercial spaceflight sector of today would take the same approach to quality as the boffins of the past.

It is currently working on fixing the GNC software issue and updating its processes and procedures to ensure there is no repeat of the problem.

The collective years of experience and talent the Lockheed Martin team possesses positively impacted these outstanding results and reinforces confidence and commitment for future customer applications."

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