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Heh, I guess all those delays make sense with this kind of feeling of risk - you can bet that they re-checked everything 101 times and any piece that was even s
by BlueTemplar 5y ago
Heh, I guess all those delays make sense with this kind of feeling of risk - you can bet that they re-checked everything 101 times and any piece that was even suspected of not working 100% as expected was replaced !
- dnautics 5y agoKind of not really, IIRC the motors for the last mirror flaps are not working as they should but it was deemed to be within risk tolerances given a workaround. Also, if I'm not mistaken it is possible for the telescope to operate down some mirrors.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoAFAICT, the reasoning was that opening up the glued-together satellite to replace the broken position sensors would have added more risk of breaking stuff than it would have mitigated in the replacement.