Actively promising outcomes that push equipment to the brink of failure would be malpractice and the planners would deservedly be fired. These are novel and t

Actively promising outcomes that push equipment to the brink of failure would be malpractice and the planners would deservedly be fired. These are novel and truly unprecedented space missions. There may yet be a future in which we can confidently predict outcomes at scale, but we are not there yet. Being conservative in assumptions is a virtue, and hopefully is emulated in every future mission.