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Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft

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Space agency declares the astronomy satellite a loss.

Japan’s flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by a basic engineering error. …

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