Originally Posted by
Phil Stunell
You mean, yet another single point of failure, with no redundancy?
Or, putting it another way, yet again designed down to a budget.
Not that NASA doesn't have form on such, either. John Glenn, when asked what it felt like sat ready to be shot up on the pioneer Mercury mission 60 years ago, famously said "It's thinking you're sat on top of 2 million components, all bought from the bottom bidder".