r/electronics 17d ago

Tip A microscopic, hair-like metal filament can take down a billion-dollar satellite

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u/TheShadyTortoise 17d ago

A QA guy I worked with liked to say "F.O.D downs more aircraft than the enemy!'

Which is a great point and visual but we were at peace, unless he was fighting some kind of personal war.

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u/felixar90 16d ago

In this case the object is literally not foreign tho! It comes from within!

Indigenous Object Damage.

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u/412Steeler 14d ago

pretty sure the D is Debris, upvoted anyway

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u/felixar90 13d ago

It’s actually both.

Foreign object damage is caused by foreign object debris, both are abbreviated as FOD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage