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posted by mrpg on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the debar dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:13PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:13PM (#838085) Journal

    what they didn't tell is these scheduled failures were done in order to fast forward the privatization of NASA

    At least that'd be something useful. My take is that NASA is one of the worse uses of US federal funds, made more glaring by its stated high-minded purposes. That includes the US military.