From: p_stickney@verizon.net   
      
   On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:03:44 -0500, Jeff Findley wrote:   
      
   > In article , jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca   
   > says...   
   >>   
   >> SN8 was tested to 12.5km and highly succesfull from launch right up   
   >> until landing legs touch ground.   
   >>   
   >> I am curious on why SN9's test flight would be an indetical repeat   
   >> instead of pushing the limits in the areas whene SN8 aced its test.   
   >   
   > Because standard experimental practice is to only change one variable so   
   > you can compare the results of two tests.  In this case, they've made   
   > changes which impact the final landing burn.  So, they're keeping   
   > everything else the same.  Once they stick the landing, then they'll   
   > expand the rest of the flight envelope.   
   >   
      
   That's a goal - but this is an analog world, after all, and it's not   
   always, or often, possible or practical to achieve that level of   
   isolation without disturbing the rest of the system(s) in unpredictable   
   ways, for suitable levels of complexity.   
      
   --   
   Pete Stickney   
   From the Foothills of the Florida Alps   
      
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