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Fake Parts, Failed Rockets, Lost Science | California News
Published 2 days, 5 hours ago
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NASA’s $700 million disaster exposed by a 19-year fraud: Sapa Profiles Inc. faked aluminum part tests, sabotaging climate satellites and rocket launches — including the Taurus XL failures in 2009 and 2011 that erased years of scientific research. Now, parent company Norsk Hydro pays $46 million, and Sapa admits guilt, banned from federal contracts — a brutal lesson that shortcuts in space tech cost Earth’s future.
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