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Interesting to see that the worry could have been avoided if they had lined up their timelines better in the first place. If they'd compared the timestamp on the test readout to the last timestamp from the telemetry system, they'd have seen that the telemetry failed BEFORE the test was executed. Partially caused by using imprecise language "we seem to have lost all spacecraft telemetry just a bit ago" rather than an accurate timestamp.

A cautionary lesson in properly checking how exactly events are connected during an incident. Easy to look at two separate signals and assume they must be causal in a particular direction, when in reality it is the other way around.





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