Air Force official cites flight software in Nellis crash

Posted at: Fri Jan 14th, 2005

A glitch in the software for controlling flight probably caused an F/A-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet to crash on takeoff last month at Nellis Air Force Base, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper said Wednesday. Jumper, who had just completed his third qualifying flight of a R...

Saturn mission 'probably a success'

Posted at: Fri Jan 14th, 2005

The Huygens mission to Saturn's moon Titan is probably a success, space agency scientists have announced. The spacecraft probe was transmitting data for over two hours as it plunged towards the moon's surface. This data has not arrived on Earth yet, but the Green Bank...