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> you may literally see your life's work go up in flames. Incidentally, this happened to Lewicki a few years later when Planetary Resources' first satellite bl

• dgunay 3y ago
  Did they have a narrow launch window they couldn't afford to miss? I'm not talking about missions where you eat a big monetary loss on the launchpad and try again, I mean missions which rely on planetary alignments that may not happen again for years, or even the rest of your life, such as Voyager. Or even just missions where you launch successfully, but then after months (or years) of flight time the spacecraft is lost.