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Rand Simberg wrote:
Unless folks are practicing double standards (say it ain't so!) then
Falcon 1 F2 was a failure.

It depends on what the goal of the flight was. If it was a flight
test, I'd say that it was a partial success, and the glass is more
than half full.

Flight tests don't have paying payloads aboard. It was a failure.

A very informative failure which showed that nothing is too badly wrong
with the vehicle, yes. But the customer paid for orbit and didn't get it.
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