I work near space but not in space. I'm not sure I understand your process here. I see 2 possibilities: 1. You bought something the manufacturer spec lied about. While true we often validate specs, our terrestrial stuff is a lot cheaper so we can afford the spares. That said, if we buy something that doesn't meet the spec, you best believe we're taking the actions necessary. 2. This was built or designed inhouse, and the requirements didn't flow down correctly. That's also not great.
To be honest, postmortems (especially from startups) toe a fine line of scaring off investors, and this write-up seems a bit too glaze-y. I'm very happy for you that so much worked so effortlessly post launch, but that's more a success story than a postmortem. I'd like to see more of the root cause analysis for the issue, both technically and programmatically.
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I work near space but not in space. I'm not sure I understand your process here. I see 2 possibilities: 1. You bought something the manufacturer spec lied about. While true we often validate specs, our terrestrial stuff is a lot cheaper so we can afford the spares. That said, if we buy something that doesn't meet the spec, you best believe we're taking the actions necessary. 2. This was built or designed inhouse, and the requirements didn't flow down correctly. That's also not great.
To be honest, postmortems (especially from startups) toe a fine line of scaring off investors, and this write-up seems a bit too glaze-y. I'm very happy for you that so much worked so effortlessly post launch, but that's more a success story than a postmortem. I'd like to see more of the root cause analysis for the issue, both technically and programmatically.