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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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:06PM
Outright falsification of documents isn't justified no matter how constrained a budget might be. Falsifying documents has a name: FRAUD. An individual or a corporation can get away with a lot of shit, so long as they don't falsify the documentation. I learned that early in life, as a young seaman. "Whatever you do, Seaman Runaway, DO NOT gundeck the logs! If you don't get the inspections done, LOG IT THAT WAY!! You may get some extra duty, if you fail to complete all the inspections you are responsible for, but you will GO TO PRISON if you gundeck the logs!"
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