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To: easytarget who wrote (3706)	6/9/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) of 4005

EZ, thanks for all the hard work and diligence. I found an Actel article that I thought you and the guys at the Raging Bull site might find interesting. Sometimes you get very lucky. I doubt that the part mentioned in the article is a Gatefield part. "USU Takes the Blame for Failure Of $80 Million Satellite Mission" "Three months after a NASA satellite carrying a Utah-built telescope spun out of control, Utah State University engineers have found why the $80 million mission failed: An unexpected power surge from a $2,000 electronic circuit made the telescope cover pop off prematurely." "Harry Ames of USU's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) said Thursday the integrated circuit -- essentially an inch-square computer chip made by Actel Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif. -- was not defective, but simply behaved in a way never before detected." "Because USU engineers did not find the problem beforehand, Ames said he is to blame for the failure of NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) shortly after its March 4 launch on a four-month mission to study how stars and galaxies evolved after the universe formed."... ..."the power surge -- which lasted a fortieth of a second -- also went undetected by NASA engineers who tested WIRE before launch."... sltrib.com:80/1999/jun/06041999/nation_w/110250.htm abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/satellite990604.html

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