'Flawed' design caused failure of NASA's WIRE space telescope
A design error allowed a "subtle, but known" electronics characteristic to trigger pyrotechnics prematurely, leaving the solid-hydrogen cryogen inside NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) space telescope exposed to direct sunlight and ruining the instrument scientists had hoped would help them...
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