Yesterday's Power Outage at LaRC

Keith’s note: The following was sent to all LaRC employees last night: “Most of NASA Langley lost power at approximately 3 p.m. today when a high voltage cable terminator failed in the Center’s Stratton substation. Employees may have heard a loud noise associated with the failure. There were no injuries. The cable terminator is on a electrical feeder cable connected to the 22-kV (22 thousand volt) main power bus. A protective relay tripped the bus off line, and most of the damage was limited to the cable terminator. Power was restored by 3:33 p.m. The Center is open for normal operations.”