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If anything, this shows the fault tolerant design that works.
by rorrr 14y ago
If anything, this shows the fault tolerant design that works.
- biot 14y agoIt's essentially a RAID6 design for rocket engines.
- tomasquintero 14y agoRAID5, they can only sustain one failure.
- biot 14y agoIncorrect. From the fine article (SpaceX's release): "It is worth noting that Falcon 9 shuts down two of its engines to limit acceleration to 5 g's even on a fully nominal flight. The rocket could therefore have lost another engine and still completed its mission."