Comment by Rygian
3 hours ago
From now on, every time I see the word "anomaly" I will assume it is an euphemism for "someone stepped on it".
3 hours ago
From now on, every time I see the word "anomaly" I will assume it is an euphemism for "someone stepped on it".
"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."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/blue-origin-rocket-ex...