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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by londons_explore on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:30AM (#24907772)
I assume it was more a case of "We have an algorithm that successfully lands the craft 80% of the time, but we would like it to be 99% of the time, so get to working on it..."
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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by peterwoerner on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:05PM (#24908757)
Usually its 99.7% percent of the time: three standard deviations.
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