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[...] Combined, the loss of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory satellites cost the space agency $700 million. In the years since, the space agency's Launch Services Program and the rocket's manufacturer, Orbital Sciences—which has since been acquired by Northrop Grumman—have been conducting investigations into what happened.
[...] But only now has the story emerged in greater detail. This week, NASA posted a summary of its decade-long investigation into the mission failures. Long story short: faulty aluminum extrusions used in the mechanism by which the payload separates from the rocket, known as a frangible joint, prevented the separation from fully occurring. Much of the report drills down into the process by which NASA reached and then substantiated this conclusion.
Source: After a decade, NASA finally reveals root cause of two failed rocket launches
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:06PM (5 children)
Sometimes rocket launches just fail randomly, like knife crime. You cant predict it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:35PM (4 children)
Sometimes corporations just commit fraud randomly, like investment fraud. You can't predict it.
Sometimes politicians just spew random lies randomly, like a slot machine. You can't predict it.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:50PM (1 child)
I can - they always spew random lies. I think that is part of the definition of the word 'politician', or at least it should be....
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:53PM
Yes, lies may be a constant. But the subject of the lies may be random. You never know which way the tweets blow today.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
Woosh. I was making fun of the people who blame everything on "randomness".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:46PM
I didn't read it that way. But I often omit sarc tags when I should have used them. In my case there (almost) should be some kind of non-sarc tag.
Far from being random, it was because of fraud.
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