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Has a spacecraft ever failed because of a wiring failure?


Hahaha oh yeah, plenty.

Recently the Peregrine Lander had wiring issues that led to using the NASA payload to perform the landing. The Vega-C launcher was lost not long ago as two connectors were swapped, connecting two engines in reverse order.

Wiring issues cause a lot of failures that are found on-ground for the most part. But plenty have made it through to fail on orbit.




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