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From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?
Date: 1996/08/02
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In article <DvHuJq.7uJ@thomsoft.com> pmartin@alsys.com (Pascal Martin
@lone) writes:

|> Someone noted that shutdowning the system before it takes off was
|> probably a sound decision. Shutdown on board of a flying system looks
|> like the worst possible choice (could going **down** in a **flying**
|> system be a good choice, anyway ? :-).

Often it is.  Normally, you should have a back-up system; if you have
some reason to doubt the correctness of your answers, it might be better
to turn things over to the back-up system.  (Note that in the end, the
final back-up system may often be some sort of manual control.)
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