Imo SIR have done a sterling job of managing this rocket.There...

Imo SIR have done a sterling job of managing this rocket.

There is no doubt Nova came out of the blue - just as Zachary indicated - it is best tell on the leaks question.

Since then SIR has had every manner of pen-pushing bureaucrat/regulator all over them trying to take a slice of their own warped version of "glory" from this baby.

MC/SIR should be awarded hero status amongst the legion of punters who ply the waters of the spec explorer section.
Sure, keep calm and rational oversight on the whole shabang; but keep the dummies in place, please!

Instead, they get criticised for all manner of imaginary bs.

First it was leaks, then it was options (proven to be a completely false accusation) and now we're back onto leaks again...

To reflect:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Ted Roosevelt 1910