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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: 95% vs. 99.9% reliability
Message-ID: <1181@infinet.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 20:42:31 GMT
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In article <1231@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>The problem, as Feynman pointed out, is how do you quanitify this?
>I can easily say 99.9 or 95 percent based on some metric, but which.

Well, the current launch-to-correct-orbit reliability for Delta-class
expendibles is 95%.  A fairly generous metric, and one that I sure
wouldn't want to ride in.

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