"It would have been easy for us to adjust the parameter that controlled how long the delta-V monitor waited before testing the engine — but nobody told us." Sl

"It would have been easy for us to adjust the parameter that controlled how long the delta-V monitor waited before testing the engine — but nobody told us." Sleep-and-assume programming is the bane of automation. Ideally, the software people should have gotten the hardware people to install some kind of sensor to detect the right condition, but I guess it was either limited by what could actually be done with the hardware, or maybe they didn't have enough influence to get the design changed...