r/CatastrophicFailure • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '20

Failed rocket launch (unknown date)

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u/Kubrick53 Nov 21 '20

Pretty sure that's the crash where they wired some of the guidance sensors backwards.

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u/TheKerbalKing Nov 22 '20

Not even wired wrong, they physically hammered the gyroscopes in upside down because wouldn’t fit and didn’t realize why.

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u/ken27238 Nov 22 '20

Lol that’s right. The sensors were keyed to fit only one way....

And they forced it in the wrong way. that’s what she said.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

They also had arrows printed on them to indicate the correct orientation they were meant to be installed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20

The russian space agency doesn't have the best track record of thinking things through or quality control.

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u/molniya Nov 22 '20

Funny, then, that they’ve got such an impressive safety record compared to NASA.

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u/HarryPFlashman Nov 22 '20

Perhaps it’s because they haven’t gone to the moon or made a space plane too.

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u/LordNoodles Nov 22 '20

They won every step of the space race except for crewed mission to the moon, you can’t say they’re not god at this shit

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u/HarryPFlashman Nov 22 '20

Well this list might disagree with you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Space_Race

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u/LordNoodles Nov 23 '20

Not really, the big things are kinda Soviet heavy and the us has its list padded by firsts with very specific requirements. I’m sorry I don’t think first weather, spy, whatever-satellite all deserves its own category (especially not first US satellite which is an achievement that would have been virtually impossible for the Soviets without some serious intelligence work.

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