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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by Hamuko on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:19PM (#19638737)
But you're still having an engine failure when the engine is far away from anyone that could potentially start mending it.
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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by Jach on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:44PM (#19638990)
Not an engine failure, but: "Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience." http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
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Re:Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appear... by zymhan on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:43PM (#19641479)
"failure" does not necessarily imply it is permanently disabled. It just means the engine stopped working as expected at some point.

Obviously they restarted it after this failure so it was not a complete breakdown of the engine.

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