[Amps] NASA Workmanship Standards

[Harold B. Mandel]

Remember the Mars Observer spacecraft?

$845,000,000.00 budget.

The housekeeping CPU team opted for $1.29 a piece
CMOS chips instead of the titanium-armored kind that
was bid at $1.79 a piece.

1 stray chunk of particulate radiation went through
one particular chip and the rocket motor fuel
pump pressurized before the vent opened,
and then the squib fired.
Ooops! (Boom!)

Hal Mandel, W4HBM

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:55:12 -0700 "Van K7VS" <wa7fab at cdsnet.net> writes:
> Considering the problems with the current launch and flight of the 
> Space 
> Shuttle, think I will look elsewhere!