Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
by morsmodr on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:01AM
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Not to stoke a fire, but I just wondered how the same failure would be viewed if it was done by a Chinese or Indian Manufacturer. Immediately it would have reinforced a stereotype of outsourcing being cheap and that being the issue. When in reality the truth is that there are frauds, lazy and useless people everywhere on the planet.
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Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
by rhexs on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:05AM
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Hopefully viewed even worse as the question would then be "why is NASA outsourcing spacecraft critical component construction to India/China?".
Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
by morsmodr on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:19AM
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Damn, did not think of that #facePalmToMyself. Yeah, such things shouldn't be outsourced
Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
by user5994461 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:36PM
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It's BAU for Chinese manufacturers. The question is not whether they will try to save costs on materials, it's when and on which parts.
If you're outsourcing production, you have to check the goods regularly.
Re:Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
by steve76 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:38AM
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How do you know India and China are exempt? It's the only place in the world that does smelting. Everything in the USA is second gen.
There's a lot of gamesmanship out there. Every part has different numbers for certs. Vendors go out of business because of some scheme with cold unit testing.
Imagine if people were straight with each other. Wow work would be really nice.