After 50 years of rocket science/engineering, why do I just not believe that? It's hard to build a rocket with enough boost, how would anybody accidentally build one with too much boost?
Or is this a controllable engine that simply blew out it's fuel way too early? Who's a rocket scientist around here?
We used to have a really cool rocket scientist around here but he somehow found enemies and it wasn’t worth it.
“Boost” is measured in seconds and is called impulse. Basicaly it is a measure of the amount of thrust and fuel to time consumption. A low thrust high fuel rocket would have similar amount of boost to a high thrust low fuel rocket.
So, it is possible that they put too much fuel in the tanks. Or if they had new engines, they might have miscalculated the actual thrust and needed amount of fuel.