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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: 4, Interesting) by RamiK on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:51PM (4 children)
The real reason for the failure is that it takes NASA a decade to find why a mission failed and then they don't point towards the guilty parties. I guarantee you if contractors and staff engineers knew post-failure investigation involve freezing all missions until a cause is found and that a typical investigation lasts a few months and concludes with a public hanging, you wouldn't have half-assed, single-point of failures designs just because someone made a patent for a new type of joint.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:47PM (3 children)
Make the path shorter: one hanging for each patent.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:02PM (2 children)
Between the person requesting the patent and the person approving it, that's one noose lacking.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 02 2019, @10:50PM (1 child)
Hemp rope is not only renewable but also reusable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:35PM
With a long enough rope, you don't even need reuse to hang two people.
But hang the patent approver in public, to be sure to teach his peers.