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Quote: NASA's Genesis spacecraft failed to deploy its drogue parachutes because the original design specified the wrong orientation for all four accelerometer switches

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Topic:
design errors
Group:
testing

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NASA's Genesis spacecraft spent three years in space … From all reports, the mission proceeded flawlessly, right … Two redundant avionics packages, each with two of … failed to detonate the parachute-ejection charges. … the switches were installed upside-down on the circuit … the original design specified the wrong orientation. …   Google-1   Google-2

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