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Can someone clarify this for me? Why does the contract with NASA forbid them to restart the engine unless they have a 99% chance of completing a second burn?

Is the problem here that if you start a second burn and have to end it prematurely, you could end up in an orbit intersecting the ISS?




As I understand it, that's exactly what it is.




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