"Anomaly" is one of those words that, in the space industry, can mean anything from "Our payload isn't behaving as well as we're expecting" to "Someone stepped on it" to "A rock hit it"
You can use it to describe literally anything that's off nominal. It's fantastic.
"Anomaly" is one of those words that, in the space industry, can mean anything from "Our payload isn't behaving as well as we're expecting" to "Someone stepped on it" to "A rock hit it"
You can use it to describe literally anything that's off nominal. It's fantastic.
I learned recent that it can also mean "the spacecraft exploded on the launchpad in an enormous fireball."
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