• MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Systems like that can easily be difficult or impossible to test on the ground, because they aren’t strong enough to work under gravity. They might need to be in free-fall to survive being deployed

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      4 months ago

      TBF the cost justification of added machinery weight to operate under many conditions is still better than needing to restart completely when it failed.