Yes, it so wildly exceeded its mission goals they were past all the "bonus round" goals and coming up with new targets. Since they tend to sequence goals by pot

Yes, it so wildly exceeded its mission goals they were past all the "bonus round" goals and coming up with new targets. Since they tend to sequence goals by potential value for a given risk, I imagine they were knowingly accepting more mission risk and stretching the risk envelope. Not quite explicit 'test to failure' but either way you eventually end up finding a failure point. Identifying this as the likely failure mode strikes me as pretty valuable for informing future designs, at least compared to the alternative of it just never being heard from again one day.