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Why isn there a fourth spacecraft for redundancy?

April 26, 2017fourth redundancy spacecraft

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Why isn there a fourth spacecraft for redundancy?

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• Cost efficiency. For the same probability for mission success, it is more cost-effective to add redundancy in each of the three spacecraft than adding an additional spacecraft, either in orbit or on the ground to be launched as a replacement.