A small explorer spacecraft was damaged at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A small explorer spacecraft was damaged at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Mar. 21 when the satellite was inadvertently vibration tested at 20g instead of the planned 2g. Initial indications were that the solar panels of the High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft were damaged...

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