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Redundancy costs mass and there are a lot of deployment steps that simply cannot be made redundant. The trick is folding everything to fit into the constraints
by evgen 5y ago
Redundancy costs mass and there are a lot of deployment steps that simply cannot be made redundant. The trick is folding everything to fit into the constraints of the payload fairing. Good engineering is to design within these limits and but if you make it too safe you end up with something that is not worth launching.