News Small leak aboard ISS

[Urwumpe]

Confirmed to be caused by bad quality assurance:

A worker had found the hole, but instead of reporting it, he sealed it with glue, so that the section passed QA. In space, the glue plug shrunk and was blown out of the hole after some weeks.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...auf-iss-schlamperei-mit-system-a-1226349.html

 

[Thunder Chicken]

That sure does look like the skipping around damage you would get if you let a drill bit get away from you, like when you don't use a starting punch.


That's some rookie metal work there. Not saying everything on the ISS needs CNC machining, hand tools are perfectly appropriate in many instances, but that's amazingly sloppy for something aerospace related.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

That sure does look like the skipping around damage you would get if you let a drill bit get away from you, like when you don't use a starting punch.


That's some rookie metal work there. Not saying everything on the ISS needs CNC machining, hand tools are perfectly appropriate in many instances, but that's amazingly sloppy for something aerospace related.

:facepalm:

I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often, given the lower quality control the Russians have demonstrated the last decade or so.

 

[Artlav]

A drilled hole in an unexpected place made by someone lacking the skills or coordination needed to make one? That sounds like either sabotage or alcohol.

And since that would be a rather odd choice of sabotage, we also can't exclude saboteuring under influence.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Or just pure incompetence.

 

[boogabooga]

I'm...shocked. Would not have expected a temporarily concealed drilled hole to be likely.

So now there are two issues:

1) That the hole was allowed to be concealed

2) That the hole was drilled in the first place

 

[Ripley]

I've just read on Italian media what Dmitry Rogozin (Roscosmos director) said on Monday.
Italian link
The link says "maybe a deliberate act of sabotage. It could have been perpetrated even in space...".
The last thing the world needs is an Isis-linked astronaut!

From http://tass.com/science/1019791 - (emphasys mine)

"We are considering all the theories. The one about a meteorite impact has been rejected because the spaceship’s hull was evidently impacted from inside. However it is too early to say definitely what happened. But, it seems to be done by a faltering hand… it is a technological error by a specialist. It was done by a human hand - there are traces of a drill sliding along the surface. We don’t reject any theories," he said.

"It is a matter of honor for Energia Rocket and Space Corporation to find the one responsible for that, to find out whether it was an accidental defect or a deliberate spoilage and where it was done - either on Earth or in space. Now it is essential to see the reason, to learn the name of the one responsible for that. And we will find out, without fail," he pledged.

In Russian
https://ria.ru/space/20180903/1527705864.html

 

[GLS]

I've just read on Italian media what Dmitry Rogozin (Roscosmos director) said on Monday.
Italian link
The link says "maybe a deliberate act of sabotage. It could have been perpetrated even in space...".
The last thing the world needs is an Isis-linked astronaut!

From http://tass.com/science/1019791 - (emphasys mine)



In Russian
https://ria.ru/space/20180903/1527705864.html

Well, there is always this...

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I'm...shocked. Would not have expected a temporarily concealed drilled hole to be likely.

So now there are two issues:

1) That the hole was allowed to be concealed

2) That the hole was drilled in the first place

3) That whatever quality assurance program in place failed to detect or act on items 1) and 2).


The rot is pretty deep here.

 

[RisingFury]

Confirmed to be caused by bad quality assurance:

A worker had found the hole, but instead of reporting it, he sealed it with glue, so that the section passed QA. In space, the glue plug shrunk and was blown out of the hole after some weeks.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...auf-iss-schlamperei-mit-system-a-1226349.html

For 's sake! The only way this gets more Russian if there are copious amounts of vodka involved.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

For 's sake! The only way this gets more Russian if there are copious amounts of vodka involved.

That's probably a major contributing factor... :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

That's probably a major contributing factor... :lol:

"He needs alcohol to get through the working day."

 

[GLS]

"He needs alcohol to get through the working day."

Actually, in Portugal a court ruled that a man working in garbage collection could be drunk due to the nature of the job... :uhh:

 

[mahdavi3d]

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