RE: R: [amsat-bb] Re: Arcjet Motor

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 PM 6/6/01 -0400, Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Diggs, Steve wrote:
>
> > I found your comment about human error quite interesting...
> > Would you elaborate on the AO-40 aspect of the human error part?
> > Please be as specific as possible.
>
>No, please don't.  I don't want to know.  I see no reason to try to hang
>probably a volunteer that gave up 10  years of his life, probably a
>marriage or two, to get AO-40 into space.


Bob, It might have been human error, but I'm sure it was an honest 
mistake.  We had volunteers dealing with a cutting edge satellite.  We 
learned how to do new things with AO-40.  On the next satellite we put up 
we'll learn from past experiences, and possible mistakes that were made 
with AO-40 won't pop up on the next one.

kb7adl


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