Cryo testing validates shuttle engine sensor fault theory
MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Huntsville, Ala. - NASA engineers believe they have duplicated the failure mechanism that has plagued the space shuttle program with sporadic bad readings on engine cutoff (ECO) sensors in the orbiter's external tank. The failure produced an intermittent open circuit in...
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