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Old 10-16-2014, 09:13 AM
drussell drussell is offline
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Originally Posted by NoPegs View Post
Quite a few space missions have ended in failure for this type of reason. To my knowledge the Hubble is the only one to have overcome it. Everything else crashed and burned.
Yeah, it's a bit of a problem when you don't notice your problem until it crashes...

For Hubble, I'm assuming you're meaning the lens sag issue because they forgot to account for gravity bending the lens while it was sitting on Earth pre-launch?
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