Wednesday 1 May 2019

NASA pins two science mission failures on falsified test results

A Tarus XL rocket being assembled at Vandenberg Air Force Base

A decade-old mystery has been resolved after a NASA investigation found that the loss of two science satellite missions was due to falsified test results on the part of a private subcontractor. In a report released Tuesday, the space agency confirmed that the Taurus XL launch failures of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011, respectively, were caused by faulty components from the aluminum manufacturer, Sapa Profiles, Inc (SPI).

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