Comments on: Loose fibers significantly cuts Gaia’s output https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/loose-fibers-significantly-cuts-gaias-output/ Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/loose-fibers-significantly-cuts-gaias-output/#comment-691857 Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:34:20 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=32292#comment-691857 I have to ask.

Exactly how many telescopes have gone up recently and how many have had a serious problem long before their life expectancy was up?

And in this case all I can think of are those cloth bellows that old cameras used. I have a few around that still work after 100 years.
I guess that technology was too much for them.

]]> By: D.K. Williams https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/loose-fibers-significantly-cuts-gaias-output/#comment-691739 Wed, 24 Dec 2014 07:42:12 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=32292#comment-691739 Of all the plethora of things that can go wrong with a spacecraft, this one takes the cake.

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