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> All 13 engines ran successfully until six engines began shutting down, triggering a benign early boostback shutdown. [...] but the six engines that shut down

> All 13 engines ran successfully until six engines began shutting down, triggering a benign early boostback shutdown. [...] but the six engines that shut down early in the boostback burn were disabled from attempting the landing burn startup, ... So was it partly a software error that the engines were put into a fault state after boostback, then they'd not try to restart on landing?

zardo 2y ago
Not necessarily wrong to not try to relight them. Maybe it should have started the landing burn earlier, or maybe there was no saving it with six O2 starved engines.
cbhl 2y ago
If the engines only have enough fuel to do the boostback burn once, they could be "disabled" in a hardware sense too?