Countdown Considerations
Launch-viewing logistics have to factor in the risk of the launch getting delayed or scrubbed for a variety of hard-to-predict reasons. Sensors can indicate a fault in its engines or plumbing, the weather may not cooperate, or you may have the especially annoying “boat in the box” range safety violation (as in, some bozo lingers in the offshore area designated as off-limits to mariners during a launch for their own protection).
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