NASA Still Searching For Discovery Glitch, Sets Launch Date

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
NASA plans to launch space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday, though engineers have not nailed down the cause of the problem that forced the space agency to abandon last week's attempt.
Discovery was less than three hours from liftoff July 13 when officials halted the countdown because of a balky fuel gauge.

After a week of troubleshooting, engineers have suspicions but no certainty. They think one possible explanation might lie with electrical signals from some of the equipment on the shuttle, said John Muratore, shuttle systems engineering manager. Those signals could be interfering with the power supply to the fuel gauges.
Source: USA Today
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