Well, it's a fair question, because the article jumps right into extremely detailed specifics like "Closed Loop Tests" that probably just people working in this

Well, it's a fair question, because the article jumps right into extremely detailed specifics like "Closed Loop Tests" that probably just people working in this domain are familiar with, without first making clear what exactly it's talking about. "The lifecycle of most spacecraft consists of a final phase" - as someone with only a cursory knowledge of spacecraft, at this point I assumed he would be talking about deorbiting?