Cape Canaveral - Crew error or a computer glitch may have botched the deployment of a $10 million satellite from the space shuttle Columbia, a NASA official has said. The Spartan solar observatory, which had to be rescued in a dramatic space walk on Monday, was not sent a command to activate crucial components including the manoeuvring system, Mr Craig Tooley, the Spartan mission manager said. He was not sure if the blame lay with the shuttle astronauts or with the laptop computer used to send the commands.