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Yeah but 7th time's a charm? I think the thing that's striking is most of the failures look like lack of ground testing to me. They had lots of failures that
by AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
Yeah but 7th time's a charm?
I think the thing that's striking is most of the failures look like lack of ground testing to me. They had lots of failures that would have presented in ground firing and a couple that would have been obvious with proper electrical integration testing.
There's a lot of process we follow in the industry that looks weird from the outside but is pretty well tuned for risk reduction, you just don't have to go full Boeing where you create tons of bonus process then circumvent it all when it becomes expensive.
- panick21_ 3y agoThey didn't launch the same rocket 7 times. Those launches are with 3 or 4 different rockets. Startups like Astra couldn't hit the price point they wanted if they had done all those processes. So they did it a different way. In the case of Astra not successfully.