Why valves are a spacecraft engineer’s worst nightmare

Follow the space industry long enough and you’ll notice that an outsized number of the problems that cause catastrophic failures of satellites or launch vehicles can be traced to a physically small but ubiquitous part: valves. Valves play a critical role in the spacecraft’s architecture, regulating the flow of pressurents like helium and propellants. They […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....