According to a fresh Reuters report, SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn mission earlier this year, which sent a crew of four to the highest point in Earth orbit since NASA’s Apollo program, also faced a mission control power failure. According to the publication’s sources, the failure lasted for an hour and left mission controllers on Earth unable to manually command the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The sources add that SpaceX also found it difficult. to transfer the mission control operations to a backup facility. Ground control is a key part of crewed and uncrewed spaceship launch safety requirements since it enables controllers […]
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