Chris

Failure is relative, especially when your design process is deliberately iterative and failure tolerant. The manner of Ship’s failure may not have been one of the ones they thought likely but overall they are fully aware the system isn’t anywhere near complete or at reliability levels suitable for regular service. The BBC’s science specialists all know this so the farming of the story here is a bit odd. It looks like they have copy from a generalist freelancer, and as so often happens it has been subbed and headlined by an inexperienced junior night desk editor.

In fact the remarkable achievement here was in catching the booster, which has only been achieved once previously