You know they Saved an Apollo crew that was in Space with some pretty serious trouble back in the day, and now they can’t figure out a fuel sensor. Makes me wonder who they have working over their now. I would imagine though that the fuel sensor in the Shuttle and a fuel sensor in an Aircraft are two completely different animals.
Knowing how hard aircraft fuel sensors can be to fix after all the sensor is submerged in fuel and many times the wires connecting those sensors are very sensitive I can imagine the frustration of trying to track down this issue. Obviously they don’t load the Shuttle up with Jet fuel but anytime you have a sensor that is being exposed to something volatile it can cause those pesky things known as electrons to do weird things. [NASA]
Todd, I actually watched the whole of the press briefing immediately after the abort decision via NASA TV. My understanding is that it is not necessarily a faulty fuel sensor as such, but is more of a failure during the pre-flight test sequence, whereby a command is sent to the sensors in order to force them to indicate
Todd, I actually watched the whole of the press briefing immediately after the abort decision via NASA TV. My understanding is that it is not necessarily a faulty fuel sensor as such, but is more of a failure during the pre-flight test sequence, whereby a command is sent to the sensors in order to force them to indicate
After puzzling over it even further, I still don’t know what the relevance of the aircraft comparisons are…