science

Last I heard it was something like $3K a kilogram to get a ride on falcon. Compared to their cost overall for each unit it's pennies.

We used to shield the hell out of everything, but we've gotten away from that in recent decades. We're getting particularly good at generating only the frequencies we need.

I'm thinking that they made a last minute business decision to push the amplifiers too hard, or maybe they decided not to update the tech and just push it harder.

There's no way they didn't run basic testing on the hardware to make sure that it was putting out appropriate frequencies.