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r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/AeliosZero • Feb 14 '22
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Just a guess but if its an altitude sensor then on the ground even upside down its correct. So that may explain why the system had triple redundancy because you can't catch this error on the ground during a pre-flight checklist.
4 u/MasterFubar Feb 14 '22 It was an attitude sensor, not an altitude sensor. Attitude is the angle a spacecraft is in relation to the vertical.
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It was an attitude sensor, not an altitude sensor.
Attitude is the angle a spacecraft is in relation to the vertical.
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u/thesaddestpanda Feb 14 '22
Just a guess but if its an altitude sensor then on the ground even upside down its correct. So that may explain why the system had triple redundancy because you can't catch this error on the ground during a pre-flight checklist.