NASA Says Switches May Have Caused Genesis Crash
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Problems with switches aboard NASA&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
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The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of solar wind may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said.
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If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other 'space weather' phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged and, in very rare and extreme cases, spacecraft may even be lost.
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A likely cause of Genesis&#39; failure appears to be four so-called gravity switches that were installed backward because of errors in Lockheed Martin&#39;s design drawings.
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Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA's  Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening,  which led to the craft's crash-landing in the Utah desert, the  U.S. space agency said.
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A parachute failed to open as NASA&#39;s Genesis space capsule plunged back to Earth on Wednesday, causing it to take a tragic tumble from the heavens that buried it in the desert
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NASA has commissioned a panel of experts to work out what went wrong with the Genesis space probe, which crashed to Earth on 8 September.
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Scientists in California on Friday began examining for the first time samples of solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft Genesis, which crashed earlier this month in the Utah desert when its parachutes failed to open on landing.
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Faulty switches are identified as the most likely cause of the Genesis sample-return capsule's crash landing last month.
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An energetic Solar storm has caused disruption to satellites and may have caused a glitch on the space station.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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SALT LAKE CITY - NASA scientists said Friday they have recovered some critical pieces of the Genesis space capsule intact and are optimistic the wreckage will yield valuable information about the origins of the solar system.   "We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our science goals," said physicist Roger C...
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for three years gathering potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth and cracked open Wednesday, exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination.    Flight engineers suspect a set of tiny explosives failed to trigger the capsule's parachutes, and the capsule slammed into the Utah desert at 193 mph...
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NASA said Tuesday it is focusing on the wiring linking crucial fuel gauges into the liquid hydrogen tank as the likely cause of failures that forced the US space agency to scrub the space shuttle's launch earlier this month.
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Russian cosmonauts and engineers may have corrected a problem that caused computers aboard the International Space Station to crash.
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SALT LAKE CITY - NASA scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule, which crashed this week in the Utah desert.    The recovery offered some hope that the mission to gather solar atoms and reveal clues to the origin of our solar system could be salvaged...