Or maybe it was designed to prevent newcomers from seeing compromising scenery from up there? I mean, what hapenned exactly at the old station location? We were told the move was caused by the presence of annoying worms, but what's the truth? Can we handle it?I don't think they (whoever was responsible) wanted the ship to crash. Unless the saboteur(s) didn't knew the ship could also fly/glide like a "old" space shuttle.
Maybe the failures were designed to stop the ship from flying up again until de operators figure out what was wrong with the systems.