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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
http://www.msnbc.com/news/964067.asp
"A nearly completed, $239 million weather satellite toppled to the floor as it was being moved at a Lockheed Martin plant and was seriously damaged, officials said Tuesday." * * * "According to a source close to the program, bolts that were supposed to secure the satellite to the "turn over cart" had been removed a day earlier by a crew working on another satellite project. The crew working on NOAA-N Prime did not notice the bolts were missing when they tried to flip the satellite, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity." Ellen |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
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ElleninLosAngeles wrote: http://www.msnbc.com/news/964067.asp At least they got it in the horizontal :-) My kingdom lost for the want of a nail... or rather, my satellite in the horizontal, QUICK, for the want of 24 bolts. -Dan |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
Imagine being one of the workers involved
Talk about a bad day |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
"Hallerb" wrote:
Imagine being one of the workers involved C'mon Bob... be consistent. Blame it on management. :/ Roger -- Roger Balettie former Flight Dynamics Officer Space Shuttle Mission Control http://www.balettie.com/ |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
Well, not seen it, but from description, it sounds like it was lucky nobody
was in the way when it went. You would think that some tie down clamps would have been in place if it was being left overnight unfastened to anything anyway, just in case of accidents. health and safety needs a kick up the rear end. So, I'd imagine its a rebuild then? Brian -- Brian Gaff.... graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________________ "ElleninLosAngeles" wrote in message om... | http://www.msnbc.com/news/964067.asp | | "A nearly completed, $239 million weather satellite toppled to the | floor as it was being moved at a Lockheed Martin plant and was | seriously damaged, officials said Tuesday." | | "According to a source close to the program, bolts that were supposed | to secure the satellite to the "turn over cart" had been removed a day | earlier by a crew working on another satellite project. The crew | working on NOAA-N Prime did not notice the bolts were missing when | they tried to flip the satellite, the source said, speaking on | condition of anonymity." | | Ellen --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 11/09/03 |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ... Well, not seen it, but from description, it sounds like it was lucky nobody was in the way when it went. You would think that some tie down clamps would have been in place if it was being left overnight unfastened to anything anyway, just in case of accidents. health and safety needs a kick up the rear end. I think you missed the full story. It WAS bolted down. Or so they thought. A different team came along and essentially "borrowed" the bolts for their own use and didn't tell anyone. Of course the team for the satellite was supposed to double check that the bolts were still there. :-) So, I'd imagine its a rebuild then? Brian -- Brian Gaff.... graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
Doug... wrote:
Probably. Although this is not exactly unheard-of in the space biz. I was re-reading the Apollo Spacecraft Chronology the other night, and among the items listed were two incidents of hardware damage due to stupidity. You forgot the most famous case of such damage... Apollo 13's LOX tank. There's also the damage to the S-IVB LOX dome on 15 IIRC. These incidents show that people make mistakes, and some of the mistakes result in hardware damage. Sometimes severe hardware damage. And it also shows such incidents happened on the all-holy perfect template for the future what the Apollo program is frequently held to be. D. -- The STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ can be found at the following URLs: Text-Only Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html Enhanced HTML Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html Corrections, comments, and additions should be e-mailed to , as well as posted to sci.space.history and sci.space.shuttle for discussion. |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
"Roger Balettie" wrote in message
... "Hallerb" wrote: Imagine being one of the workers involved C'mon Bob... be consistent. Blame it on management. No, that's DCRAZY. Bob's task now is to make five or six posts over the next few days with titles like: "What happns when a satlitte falls over? " "If a stellite falls on you what do you do?" "I think abot sateltiteses falling on me all the time" "In 1998 a satellite almost fell on somone WHY WAS IT COVERED UP" "Did you evr see that Northren Exposure eipisoded where maggies boyfriend was killed by a satelite" Eh, this is too easy to be any fun... |
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Have you seen the photo of the $240 million satellite that fell over? LOL
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
... Well, not seen it, but from description, it sounds like it was lucky nobody was in the way when it went. You would think that some tie down clamps would have been in place if it was being left overnight unfastened to anything anyway, just in case of accidents. health and safety needs a kick up the rear end. So, I'd imagine its a rebuild then? My uneducated guess would be that the upper 2/3rds (at least from the yellow part upwards) are going to need repair and inspection. Oh wait... I forgot, you're blind. OK... The satellite is a long rectangular box-type truss structure with a yellow covering over the middle 50% of its length. There are wires and small box-like assemblies on this truss, which is maybe 15-18 feet long. This structure sits on top of what looks like a small inverted salad bowl about 6 feet in diamter. The whole thing has fallen sideways off of a frame of some sort onto the floor, so the top of the truss is on the floor and the salad-bowl bottom is about a yard off the floor, still on the frame. There's some expensive looking assemblies on top that are squished and bent, and the upper corner of the yellow covering is touching the floor. It looks like about 25-30% of the satellite is actually in contact with the floor. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for the meetings that result from this... "OK... Who dropped our satellite?" |
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