The suspended platform was designed with some redundancy, so losing a single cable wasn't necessarily catastrophic.

悬挂平台的设计具有一定的冗余性，因此丢失一根电缆并不一定会造成灾难性的后果。

The Arecibo suspended platform cables were designed to have a factor of safety of two, meaning they were twice as strong as the expected static loading from the platform.

阿雷西博悬挂平台电缆的设计安全系数为两倍，这意味着它们的强度是平台预期静态载荷的两倍。