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the payload had a few modes of operation, IIRC one was to spin it far faster than it should, then stop abruptly in an attempt to damage the centrifuge one was
by irobeth 3y ago
the payload had a few modes of operation, IIRC
one was to spin it far faster than it should, then stop abruptly in an attempt to damage the centrifuge
one was to run it at the wrong RPM to spoil the product of the centrifuge
in either mode, it would replay 'good' data to make the centrifuge look functional to an administrator
the way I understood, a 'bonus goal' was to keep the Iranians unable to diagnose what was going wrong, both with their production process (producing bad stock) and the failures (promoting distrust in their engineers) - i can't find an article right now, but I remember reading they were churning through site engineers at the time - presumably firing them for the on-site failures of centrifuges or their inability to stop them