Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:41PM
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Taking risks is good in testing/design, but not a great idea for a production rocket. You want to find all the failure points during the design phase instead of blowing up expensive payloads.
Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @11:26AM
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Taking a minimum of risk and getting the job done is also getting something right, a good deal of somethings.
Conversely, absence of failure may mean you took a calculated amount of risk and it paid off. But it could also mean you were overly conservative, didn't push the boundaries, and took a minimum of risk. There's no way to tell the difference purely from the absence of failure.
The worst outcome is when a failure happens and you though you were very conservative but actually had no idea what the real risks were. That's the Challenger situation.