In the 2019 OFT-1 test, Boeing live-patched a bug in space that could've destroyed the ship just two hours before re-entry. And that bug was discovered *only* because of another bug that sent the ship into the wrong orbit to begin with.
Spaceship from hell...
@niconiconi To be fair, "service module can collide with the reentry vehicle" is a problem even if it's low probability, and it wasn't too uncommon in the past.
In Apollo the SM would, after separation, fire thrusters to spin (for stabilization) and thrusters facing the CM (to move away). During Apollo 11 the crew saw the SM through the window going in a weird direction way after separation. It turns out that propellant slosh during those thruster firing caused it to essentially reverse direction over a few minutes. See https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37047/how-did-sloshing-prevent-the-apollo-service-module-from-moving-safely-away-from
The thing I find most crazy in that situation is that it was found out only because Apollo 11 astronauts noticed the SM through a window.
I don't know how similar this situation was (both in mechanism and in probability of collision).
