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NASA-LLIS-1771

Lessons Learned - Ensure That Items Separated In Flight Will Not Collide

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Organization: NASA
Publication Date: 27 October 2006
Status: active
Page Count: 6
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Abstract:

The potential for separated items to regain contact and damage the spacecraft has posed a significant risk to recent, current, and planned JPL missions, and it may have been a factor in the Beagle 2 mission failure. Conduct flight tests or analyses to verify that items separated from a lander or return capsule during the descent phase of a mission remain separate by a substantial margin.

Document History

NASA-LLIS-1771
October 27, 2006
Lessons Learned - Ensure That Items Separated In Flight Will Not Collide
Abstract: The potential for separated items to regain contact and damage the spacecraft has posed a significant risk to recent, current, and planned JPL missions, and it may have been a factor in...
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