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From: herve@cvl.umd.edu (Jean-Yves Herve')
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Subject: Re: The Ariane V36 failure (was Re: Ariane launches ON TIME! (again))
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Date: 14 Nov 90 01:38:43 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.192118.6012@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1990Nov9.145517.1891@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1990Nov10.151130.29117@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <1990Nov13.185458.5052@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Nov13.185458.5052@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Nov10.151130.29117@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> lvron@earth.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>>(1) the failure was due to a piece of cloth.  How could this have been 
>>    isolated after the failure?

>They pinned down possible causes based on the symptoms, and then went through
>the recovered debris very carefully, and found the cloth.

I seem to remember reading some report stating that the piece of cloth was
clean (which meant it hadn't been used for cleaning parts and been forgotten
there). Now, how clean can a piece of cloth found among debris be?
Or is my memory playing tricks again?


Jean-Yves Herve'
herve@urdr.umd.edu