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calin2k on June 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure

"Non nominal flight"

orian on June 28, 2015 [–]

What does it mean?

001sky on June 28, 2015 | | [–]

How did nominal come to mean “within acceptable tolerances”?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-n...

So, it's another way of saying something is 'out of tolerance'.

mitchty on June 28, 2015 | | [–]

Rapid unplanned disassembly.

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