Re: Breaking up the party
No, the lander was supposed to land and validate the whole technology, and not fail that early. Once again, an ESA lander utterly failed because one or more components didn't work as expected (Huygens too had a computer error that caused the loss of half the data). That means they can't be sure the 2020 lander will work, now. They didn't test a critical part of the technology.
It is clear there are big issues in how ESA validates its systems, and attempting to hide the dust under the carpet is just dangerous, more failures to come, this way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
