Or, "how not to drop a satellite on the floor":
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The wonderful thing about software is that a large number of our "checklists" can be automated.
Unfortunately, the checklist of checklists to automate is still manual :p
"We've put our automated checklist for site deployment on the internal mediawiki page at https://site.goes.here , problem is that Bob was trying to rack the 85 pound, 4U server containing the hypervisor that runs the wiki instance, and he dropped it on the floor from a 6' height"
Glance through ... "The MIB found such violations were routinely practiced." ... what?
Backtrack, backtrack ... "the NOAA N-PRIME Mishap Investigation Board (MIB)" ... ah, OK.
(Men in Black movie, if that was before your time. Where the checkout line tabloid rags - clickbait before its time - were the research reports. ;-)
> "the NOAA N-PRIME Mishap Investigation Board (MIB)" ... ah, OK.
That's just what they want you to think.
and definitely not an SNMP MIB
Thanks for the link. Earlier, I imagined this while watching the James Webb Space Telescope rollover [0]. Now I know it can really happen.
Honestly, this was the best place for this to happen. Better it tip onto the floor than something fail on lift-off or while in orbit. A sat in the garage is worth 1/4 of one in orbit.
Probably wouldn't have happened during launch, though, as the mechanism attaching it to the rotational base would've been replaced with a special pyro platform rigged with explosive bolts to separate the satellite from the final carrier stage. Hopefully the people who rig the explosive bolts are a bit more thorough with their checklist.
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