Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure.

Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (2^6) and was caught by a 2^7s check (127s)

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Why in God's name would you use a 6-bit signed integer for anything on a spacecraft? I know space-certified chips are pretty barebones, but surely not that bare bones...
- This is Roscosmos we're talking about here. First lunar mission in 25 years??

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