{"id":6547,"date":"2016-06-28T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2018-05-29T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T01:14:10","slug":"waiting-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Waiting to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our scrubbed launch attempt a couple weeks ago, we have not had another opportunity. Since then we have tweaked and tested BIT. But there&#8217;s a limit to how much non-invasive change can happen while maintaining launch-readiness. 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