Chris “Emergent-C” Vreeland on Nostr: They had a bad sensor reading in the abort system at about -45 minutes, and this is ...

They had a bad sensor reading in the abort system at about -45 minutes, and this is where they had to do an “Is it the thing that the sensor reads, or is it just the sensor that’s sending bad data?” They ran it down pretty quickly and looked at previous data from that sensor, other redundant sensors, and concluded that the thing was fine, it was just the sensor. If you were watching, you
Might have heard them read through this on tv. This is the sort of work she did in the test phase of all those bazillion parts- dissecting data, writing the procedures
to test the things, and certifying the tests. Erin’s not part of the launch team- Orion hands the vehicle off to NASA and it’s out of their hands once they start stacking in the VAB. Those guys in mission control were basically doing the same thing, live with a fully fueled rocket. Nerves of steel, and they were right. They were able to make the right call because of all the work the test engineers put in during assembly. Erin was in some ways responsible for that data. That was a kinda tense moment, but we are on our way!