The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.
The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.
I understand the sentiment but a 4 second delay is hardly a story.
A 4 second delay can mean losing a launch window.
4 seconds? Usually launch windows are in hours and days right? Unless you have barely any fuel margin and you’re trying to hit a very very specific orbit I can’t imagine 4 seconds being a huge issue. But I’m no orbital dynamicist
It’s not a huge deal, and if it were then the mission is already balanced on a knife’s edge and shouldn’t have been designed that way in the first place. There are plenty of technical problems that could cause a 4-second delay.