Debris Caused Tether Snap
Tethered Satellite System-1R snapped free of the Space Shuttle Columbia shortly before it was fully deployed because a breach in the thin tether's insulation triggered an electrical arc that burned through it, investigators have concluded. The break in the insulation surrounding the 11.06-naut.-mi....
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