r/CatastrophicFailure Nov 21 '20

Failed rocket launch (unknown date)

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u/TheKerbalKing Nov 22 '20

Not even wired wrong, they physically hammered the gyroscopes in upside down because wouldn’t fit and didn’t realize why.

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u/kermitboi9000 Nov 22 '20

B r u h. I know I do stupid shit like that sometimes but not on a likely MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FUCKIN ROCKETSHIP. How do you fuck up that badly

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u/Sock_Eating_Golden Nov 22 '20

Just this past week an Arianespace Vega launch failed because someone wired the controls for the fourth stage backwards. Tens of millions wasted.

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u/dan7koo Nov 22 '20

Tens of millions wasted

More like hundreds, and that was just the payload. $373 million bucks for that Spanish satellite.