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Assuming they were correct about the first incident, it was caused by a faulty strut that was supposed to hold the helium COPV in place, but failed. If they've
by dandelany 10y ago
Assuming they were correct about the first incident, it was caused by a faulty strut that was supposed to hold the helium COPV in place, but failed. If they've already ruled out a strut failure in this case, it seems pretty safe to say that they are unrelated.
- hencq 10y agoThough it must be said that NASA apparently never signed off on the strut explanation. So conceivably it was never the strut, in which case it could be the same issue. Then again, I assume the people working on this are much smarter than me and have much more information, so they probably considered and rejected that too.