Wake Shield Facility shut down after overheating
Controllers shut down the Wake Shield Facility yesterday after the orbiting high-vacuum epitaxy experiment overheated while fabricating wafers of ultra-pure aluminum gallium arsenide. A spokeswoman for Space Industries Inc., which built the 12-foot steel disk released Monday by the Space Shuttle...
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