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Re:Starship Flight 7 by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:46PM (#42732422)
> Something measurable had to go very wrong

Or slightly wrong. An FTS is programmed to be conservative. Particularly on unmanned flights. Doubly particularly on reëntry. Triply so on experiments bits.

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by DeepYogurt on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:23PM (#42733036)
Depends on the programmers I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:Starship Flight 7 by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:27PM (#42733061)
> Depends on the programmers I guess

It depends on the Air Force.

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Re:Starship Flight 7 by BuyMyBitcoins on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:38AM (#42734425)
All of the exception handling was spent on the try/catch of the booster.
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