Orbital Express spacecraft redock after computer failure

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Orbital Express spacecraft redocked with each other May 19 after spending nearly eight days separated following a critical failure of one of the two spacecrafts' primary sensor flight computers. The malfunction of the AC-2 computer onboard...

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