[snopercod]

I hadn't heard about the hydraulic pressure measurements, only the temperatures. There is a really good integrated timeline of MCC communications and sensor failures over on another thread.

Stand by for a ping.

[anymouse]

Clarification: I meant the loss of temperature data from sensors on the hydrolic actuators. That seems to be the common thread of these sensor failures.

A fellow NASA type theorized that a broken high pressure hydrolic line could have cut through the aluminum structure quite easily and then the hydrolic fluid hitting the ceramic tiles would have loosened the epoxy enough with the pressure to pop at least a few tiles off. He said that he didn't have any analysis to back up his theory, but it is a plausible scenario.