Contamination, flaws blamed for Tethered Satellite loss
The U.S./Italian Tethered Satellite was lost last February because of electrical arcing triggered either by outside contamination or a broken strand of copper wire inside the almost 13-mile-long tether that linked it to the Space Shuttle Columbia, a review panel has found. NASA and the Italian Space...
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