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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".

dabluecaboose 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"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.

bigfatkitten 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

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...

DaiPlusPlus 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's already known as "rapid unscheduled disassembly" - and happens so-often in spaceflight that it's hardly anomalous at this point.