Reply to post: Re: RIP Hotomi! We hardly knew ye.

Japan's Hitomi space 'scope bricked, declared lost after software bug

Yag
Facepalm

Re: RIP Hotomi! We hardly knew ye.

Don't forget the usual...

"As we took far longer than planned for the design and coding phase, as the current software is infested with bugs, and as we cannot change the delivery date, the validation team will have to work 3/8 shifts, probably during the saturdays and sundays as well, for the next 3 monthes."

And it's not even an exageration, but the transcription of a job interview I made a couple of monthes ago.

For a major satellite manufacturer.

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