Will Investigate What Went Wrong With Orbiting Carbon
Observatory Launch
NASA has selected all the members of the board that will
investigate the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon
Observatory on February 24. Rick Obenschain, deputy director at
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, will lead the
mishap investigation board.
The board consists of four other voting members:
Jose Caraballo, safety manager at NASA's Langley Research
Center in Hampton, VA
Patricia Jones, acting chief of the Human Systems Integration
Division in the Exploration Technology Directorate at NASA's Ames
Research Center at Moffett Field, CA
Richard Lynch, Aerospace Systems Engineering, Goddard Space
Flight Center
Dave Sollberger, deputy chief engineer of the NASA Launch
Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The ex officio member is Ruth Jones, Safety and Mission
Assurance manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala. The ex officio member assures board activity
conforms to NASA procedural requirements.
The board began its investigation March 3. The members will
gather information, analyze the facts and identify the failure's
cause or causes and contributing factors. The board will make
recommendations for actions to prevent a similar incident.
As ANN reported, the Orbiting Carbon
Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 1:55 am PST
liftoff February 24 from California's Vandenberg Air Force
Base.
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