Recent content by edd

Lack of launchers for another CFT plus all the contracted missions, Boeing's massive losses, the U.S. election and potential for increasing politicization of the landscape, all pull future decisions away from the hands of engineers and scientists and toward the hands of politicians and bean...

This is faulty vehicle architecture resulting in cumbersome fixes and bad decisions. Replacing a valve is so problematic that risking a mission failure is preferable. A previous commenter has mentioned it thus: " design spacecraft so single point of failure mechanisms are accessible for...