Satellite mishap on the ground. Does anybody remember?

[TSPenguin]

I've come across this picture:

Does anyone remember where, when, how, who and what this was?

 

[Helios]

I believe that was a GOES Satellite IIRC

 

[Woo482]

did they launch it ?

 

[Whatu]

Someone must had wanted to "launch" a few employees without a spacesuit...

 

[Urwumpe]

Does anyone remember where, when, how, who and what this was?

Where: Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale CA
When: I think in 2003, not sure
How:One team took the 24 bolts attaching the satellite to the tilting platform out without documenting it. And other team did not control that these bolts are in place before tilting the satellite for further assembly.
What: A NOAA-N satellite - similar to the military DMSP satellites

 

[simonpro]

That's the NOAA-N prime satellite. It was a writeoff after the turnovertable incident, so NOAA decided to rebuild the satellite.
LockMart were then forced to rebuild the thing at no cost to the US Government, based mainly on spare parts and backups to the prime instrument. The satellite will be launched early next year.

 

[TSPenguin]

Thanks for information.
Fail at every level it seems....

 

[Master of Blades]

Does anyone know under which mission this happened?

 

[Urwumpe]

Does anyone know under which mission this happened?

Space Shuttle Ultra. When your graphic card cooks away and the Z-Buffer fails. Am I the only one seeing the protection panel going between Tail service mast and orbiter? :rofl:

 

[Andy44]

 

[TSPenguin]

Since I seem to have dragged this forum down, I might as well continue.
FailBlog

 

[Urwumpe]

European fireworks:

 

[Whatu]

Fast shuttle that was...

 

[astrosammy]

M1 FAILS:

 

[spcefrk]

As much as that implies failure, it's actually a controlled maneuver called an "energy abatement maneuver". That's a ballistic missile interceptor and because it uses a solid fuel, if it needs to bleed off energy it needs to go into a maneuver to dissipate energy rather than throttle back.

 

[Andy44]

As much as that implies failure, it's actually a controlled maneuver called an "energy abatement maneuver". That's a ballistic missile interceptor and because it uses a solid fuel, if it needs to bleed off energy it needs to go into a maneuver to dissipate energy rather than throttle back.

No, it's a Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile test gone horribly wrong. Read here.

 

[Urwumpe]

As much as that implies failure, it's actually a controlled maneuver called an "energy abatement maneuver". That's a ballistic missile interceptor and because it uses a solid fuel, if it needs to bleed off energy it needs to go into a maneuver to dissipate energy rather than throttle back.

wrong... it was a Trident 2 submarine launched ballistic missile which failed at that launch. If I remember correctly, it was attributed to a failed inertial measurement sensor. Energy management for such missiles usually consists of burning off-track (which has also the advantage that it makes the missiles much harder to predict by early warning satellites), not flying loops at increasing rotation rate (see the radius of each loop shrinking). If I remember correctly, such loopings can also overload the IMUs of such missiles.

especially important : An antiballistic missile would never ever bleed of energy - they can never have too much.

 

[Andy44]

An antiballistic missile would never ever bleed of energy - they can never have too much.

True in operation, but they do a spiral maneuver to bleed off energy when being tested in areas where it's important to keep them from straying off the test range, such as Nevada. There's a video out there somewhere.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

Fail:

 

[Dr Pepper]

True in operation, but they do a spiral maneuver to bleed off energy when being tested in areas where it's important to keep them from straying off the test range, such as Nevada. There's a video out there somewhere.

They did that during the THAAD tests at White Sands. Said it bled off about 1/3 of the missile's energy and was to keep it from flying into Mexico in the chance that there may be an accident, I belive.