PARIS — Any rocket company chief executive must have nightmares about this: You’re alone in the public docket having to explain a failure for which the only credible cause lies inside your own house.
The question then is: Do you face the music, or try to change the tune?
For Avio SpA Chief Executive Giulio Ranzo, that day came on Dec. 18 during a press briefing on the Nov. 17 failure of the Avio-designed, Avio-built Vega rocket.
Supported hammer and tongs . . .
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