21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
1:24 p.m.
On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:14 PM, rwg <rwg@sdf.org> wrote:
https://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/~mlampton/AllenReportHST.pdf I haven't plowed though this, but I recall reading that the grinding was to be guided by a highlight off a metallic calibration bead, but a misaligned guidance lens deceived a technician into mistaking the highlight off some protective plastic goop for the metallic bead. This would have been caught by "all-up" testing, which was skipped due to cost and time overruns. —rwg
Perhaps the saddest single-author article in existence: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1240555