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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) 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.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.