Broken bearing blamed for HESSI testing mishap
A broken bearing on the "shaker" used to vibration-test spacecraft at the Jet Propulsion Lab caused the mishap that left NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) with structural damage and a launch delay of undetermined duration, an agency mishap board reported. The $40 million...
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