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>I'm very impressed by this private-enterprise venture into heavy-lift launch services.

The fact that an engine failed, should be viewed as a success, as it allowed for the validation of the fault tolerant design.

It's not that one should never have failures, what matters is how they mitigate and adapt, in order to complete the mission.



A successful test of the one-engine-out code! Given that they don't want to initiate this failure on purpose, it's handy that they had one so early.




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