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Good explanation by Scott Manley -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5boa6wAK0Sc
A bent pin stopped the sensor for activating - which stopped oxygen venting - which stopped the tip of the strap on booster pivoting away from the center core stage.
The question has to be - how did the pin get bent in the first place. It looks like it was due to sloppy and poor assembly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5boa6wAK0Sc
A bent pin stopped the sensor for activating - which stopped oxygen venting - which stopped the tip of the strap on booster pivoting away from the center core stage.
The question has to be - how did the pin get bent in the first place. It looks like it was due to sloppy and poor assembly.
MartG said:
Funny how there was a ( allegedly Boeing funded ) article about concerns that outgassing from paint on Dragon was affecting experiments on the ISS, yet no-one seemed bothered about all the debris from this little operation
I don't suppose flakes of foil are as problematic to the science experiments as molecules or gas.Two cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk a few weeks ago and they might have seen something that indicated a meteor strike - although what you might be actually looking for is not clear. Being a Russian spacecraft, I have always been more inclined to think it was a deteriorating or wrongly installed seal in the coolant system. Or a fatigue failure of a coolant line.
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