The spacecraft was lost and:
"the most probable reason of software malfunction was a Y2K-like problem. August 11, 2013, 00:38:49, was 2^32 of one-tenth seconds from January 1, 2000, leading to speculation that a system on the craft tracked time in one-tenth second increments since January 1, 2000, and stored it in a signed 32-bit integer, which then overflowed at this time, similar to the Year 2038 problem"
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadThe spacecraft was lost and: "the most probable reason of software malfunction was a Y2K-like problem. August 11, 2013, 00:38:49, was 2^32 of one-tenth seconds from January 1, 2000, leading to speculation that a system on the craft tracked time in one-tenth second increments since January 1, 2000, and stored it in a signed 32-bit integer, which then overflowed at this time, similar to the Year 2038 problem"
We're almost halfway there, now.
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."
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