Orbital blames separation shock for Pegasus XL failure
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corp. analyzing the Nov. 4 failure of a Pegasus XL launch vehicle to jettison its two payloads have determined that the shock of third-stage separation broke a critical switch that killed power to the pyrotechnics that should have cut the satellites free. Fixing the...
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