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[โ€“] Morphit@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's more that they haven't tested the software changing mode mid-mission. At least that's Scott Manley's impression(@5:50ish).

Given the software issues thus far, I can see they'd be a bit wary that flipping that switch could cause problems.

I would think they could set it back to autonomous mode but that they have to do the testing and validation to prove the system will tolerate the change with no issues.