Utah State engineers say power surge triggered WIRE pyro bolts
An intermittent power-up irregularity that escaped notice during testing may have caused NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) to jettison its telescope cover prematurely, scuttling the mission even as the spacecraft otherwise performed well. Engineers at Utah State University's Space Dynamics...
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