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Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak

posted by mrpg on Thursday September 06 2018, @10:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the laika dept.

Bytram (from IRC) writes:

Ars Technica:

Last week, a pressure leak occurred on the International Space Station. It was slow and posed no immediate threat to the crew, with the atmosphere leaving the station at a rate such that depressurization of the station would have taken 14 days.

Eventually, US and Russian crew members traced the leak to a 2mm breach in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 vehicle that had flown to the space station in June. The module had carried Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and NASA's Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor.

[...] The drama might have ended there, as it was initially presumed that the breach had been caused by a tiny bit of orbital debris. However, recent Russian news reports have shown that the problem was, in fact, a manufacturing defect. It remains unclear whether the hole was an accidental error or intentional. There is evidence that a technician saw the drilling mistake and covered the hole with glue, which prevented the problem from being detected during a vacuum test.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday September 06 2018, @04:31PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 06 2018, @04:31PM (#731380) Journal

    Quality Control is about carefully controlling the amount of quality that can get through.

    On Ars someone mentioned that this is probably a cultural problem. Item A. Someone maid a mistake and was so afraid of reporting it that they tried to fix it and hope nobody noticed.

    This "we'll find the full name of who did this" is a symptom of that cultural problem.

    Or as software developers know it: FDD.

    (Fear Driven Development)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @09:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 06 2018, @09:44PM (#731524)

    FDD explains the morass of ineptitude that is called Windows. Also Gnome3 and the new flat-look apps. In the old days we used to call this regression.

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:55PM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday September 06 2018, @11:55PM (#731570) Journal

      Regression below the mean?
      Or regression testing, where you check all the old bugsfeatures still behave as expected.

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