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Lockheed Martin Drops NOAA Satellite

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @07:45AM from the all-the-king's-horses-being-mobilized dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last Saturday, engineers at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale were rotating the NOAA-N spacecraft from vertical to horizontal when it slipped and fell - hard. SpaceRef has the story and a graphic photo of the damaged satellite."

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Prooves once and for all.... by danratherfan · 2003-09-09 09:37 · Score: 0, Troll

The efficiencey of private industry over the federal government. If NASA had developed that satelite it would have had to have waited until it got into space to be destroyed.
F'in Meatbags by Anonvmous+Coward · 2003-09-09 10:48 · Score: 0, Troll

As a robot, I'm deeply offended by this graphic photo. If you all find this type of imagery entertaining, then all you meatbags can just bite my shiny metal ass!