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Well shucks. That puts a minor damper in an otherwise fabulous show of great redundancy engineering.
by Pwnguinz 14y ago
Well shucks. That puts a minor damper in an otherwise fabulous show of great redundancy engineering.
- hga 14y agoIndeed, but the article is seriously lacking in that it was ISS safety rules that prevented SpaceX from doing this secondary payload's normal orbital insertion burn. Even if this risk wasn't fully appreciated by the customer, the very fact that they were paying a reduced rate for a secondary payload was because they'd only get a "best" vs. "maximum" effort to put their satellite into its proper orbit.