The case of the missing Vega AVUM propellant tanks

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We changed the URL from https://orbitaltoday.com/2023/12/09/avio-fuel-tanks-theft-or... (which doesn't seem to have significant new information but does seem to add sensational speculation) back to the original report. It was posted a few days ago, but only got 1 comment:

The Case of the Missing Vega AVUM Propellant Tanks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542689 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

"the tanks had not been entered into a company-wide asset management system"

And I thought my last employer was disorganized when it took them 3 months to realize I still had their laptop and send me a return form.

Would that tracking system have helped?

Someone has sold them for scrap - I guess they’d have know exactly when they were last on site.

> "found alongside metal scraps in a landfill"

That sounds a lot more like accident than profit – metal sold for scrap doesn't end up in landfill.

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