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3) The warning was missed due to <fill in the blank process failure> 4) The severity of the situation was misjudged 5) They decided to try a real-world experi
by macintux 5y ago
3) The warning was missed due to <fill in the blank process failure>
4) The severity of the situation was misjudged
5) They decided to try a real-world experiment to determine whether their expectations were correct
- quartesixte 5y agoI suspect some combination of 4 and 5. Seeing how the satellites were taken down not by the storm itself but the atmosphere slightly expanding to make the low-orbit to high-orbit move physically impossible, I wonder if this is something that hadn’t been encountered before, or is a known phenomenon but with unknown consequences. Known phenomenon with unknown consequences tends to be the kind of stuff SpaceX likes to hurl headfirst into to see what breaks.