Questions tagged [failure]
Questions regarding missions or parts of missions which were not successful.
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Were solar concentrators on HS-702 just a stop-gap measure until triple-junction PV cells were available?
According to Gunter's Space Page discussion of early versions of the Hughes HS-702 Bus:
The first version of the 702 used solar arrays with concentrators. These concentrators tended to early fogging, ...
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How do spacecraft protect their engines from micrometeroids?
A meteoroid impact on an engine bell can easily rupture a coolant pipe. Or it can create an imperfection in the backing plate from where cracks can form. Or it can destroy an injector. All of these ...
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Would deorbiting a crippled Apollo spacecraft using the Saturn V third stage have been a reasonable contingency?
In the event of the loss of all fuel cells in an Apollo mission, would reaching orbit with the third stage, then using the relight to de-orbit somewhat near the normal location in the pacific be a ...
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What was the design failure that Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is alluding to?
I was looking through old saved urls and when an old Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory press release link didn't work, it sent me to the PageNotFound page, where I saw the image below.
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Why did Starship lose an engine on IFT-4?
By T+0:00:06 at the latest, the Super Heavy carrying Starship for Integrated Flight Test 4 appears to have lost an engine (source and image). I know it's not a huge deal, as they can complete missions ...
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What could be used to associate these fairing halves with their launches?
Eric Ralph's Teslarati article SpaceX’s BFR factory in LA spied with four Falcon 9 fairing halves shows several panoramic photos of the site for the future rocket factory. In it, the author says:
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What if Soyuz re-entered with orbital module attached?
Soyuz 5 and Soyuz TMA-11 survived reentry with an attached Service Module, which simply burned off. There have been no accidents where the Orbital Module has remained attached. What would be the ...
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Why did the Hyperbola-1 have an attitude control system leak May 2022?
On May 13, 2022, the Hyperbola-1 rocket failed for the third time in a row. I could not find any launch video showing anything clearly failing. According to Seradata, the cause was an attitude control ...
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Why did the maiden flight of Kairos fail?
On March 13, 2024 the maiden of Space One's launch vehicle Kairos was automatically destroyed by it's Flight Termination System 5 seconds after launch. At the time, the company stated that they were ...
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Are there examples of errors caused by the use of two English units?
The Mars Climate Orbiter was infamously lost because of software which used metric units in some places and U.S. Customary units in other places, without conversion factors. The incident is discussed ...
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Does a safety team get fined if a rocket launch fails due to the safety of the rocket?
I was writing a story and I wanted to write about this topic but I could not find a straight answer from any website.
Please help
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Oxygen Generation System
Is there any possible failure that OGS (oxygen generation system which ISS has) can overproduce oxygen in a spaceship? Just wondering the possibility how can spaceship explode by themselves without ...
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Did "lock the doors" for the Challenger incident also apply to KSC?
The answers to this question explain that "lock the doors" is part of the standard NASA procedure when an accident occurs. Securing the mission control center helps preserve evidence that will be ...
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What would happen if one Ariane V SRB did not ignite properly? (there may be no lock-down mechanism)
The excellent answers to What are these circular spots on these Ariane V SRB nozzles? tend to indicate that unlike the IV, the Ariane V simply rests on two flat surfaces under the SRBs at launch time, ...
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Databases of "scrubbed" launch attempts?
I'm curious if there is a statistically demonstrable tendency not to schedule launches on certain days, such as those that contain leap seconds (see answers below this question), year changes, or ...
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Was Starship 28 equipped with a "black box" designed to enable the recovery of flight data after a RUD during reentry?
Other terms used to describe a "black box" include Flight Data Recorder (FDR), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), MADS (Modular Auxiliary Data System), and OEX (Orbiter EXperiments) recorder. ...
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How often in NASA history was "Houston, we have a problem" or deviations actually said?
The phrase "Houston, we've had a problem" was said by Jim Lovell after the oxygen tank blew up during Apollo 13, and in the movie Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell said "Houston, we have a ...
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