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Post-Launch Investigation: What We Found and Next Steps

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After determining the root cause of the software issue, we found that our flight control software was vulnerable to a specific "packet loss" failure mode. A missed series of signals resulted in a chain of events, resulting in the upper stage's inability to recover from its tumble.