Paper referenced in the video: “A NEWLY DISCOVERED BRANCH OF THE FAULT TREE EXPLAINING SYSTEMIC REACTION WHEEL FAILURES AND ANOMALIES” William Bialke and Eric

Paper referenced in the video: “A NEWLY DISCOVERED BRANCH OF THE FAULT TREE EXPLAINING SYSTEMIC REACTION WHEEL FAILURES AND ANOMALIES” William Bialke and Eric Hansell https://esmats.eu/esmatspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2017/bialke.pdf https://esmats.eu/esmatspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2017/bialke.p... The title is in capitals, who am I to change it. I believe the issue was high voltages induced by solar flares, which arced across the bearing races, putting them and leading to gradually increasing friction. I’ll have to go over it again to find out what the solution is. Interesting though early on NASA had JPL do lots of work to resolve the high failure rate of satellites, I believe this being done to electrical connections etc needing to be far more robust for launch.