It's confusing because of the double use of the term, but the failure analysis points to a state estimation failure.
Folks, the Japanese satellite didn't fail because of a software update. It failed because the update step in a filtering algorithm broke.
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Many of guidance algorithms use a Kalman filter-like approach, where inertial sensors are periodically updated with more "true" data.
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