Lasting longer should be no surprise. The design spec in years is NOT the mean time before failure. It is more like the 4-sigma time before failure. It is so far out there that many times what kills them finally is running out of propellent. "Design lifetime" is kind of a misleading term.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, John Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Magnus et al - just FYI: 2 1/2 times the design lifetime is not unusual > for satellites. More of the Ham Oscar satellites have exceeded their > lifetime by that much or more. (Sorry, no facts handy). -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
