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PVG Ascents with fixed burntimes and multiple unguided upper stages do not enter TERMINAL guidance on the booster #2008

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If there is an "optimized" free-burntime booster stage, then it will correctly enter TERMINAL guidance if all the upper stages are unguided. But if we're doing a fixed burntime max-energy ascent, then guidance never enters TERMINAL state, even though we're about to lose all our degrees of freedom.

PVG handles this reasonably well, but there appears to be a control kick right before the upper stage separates. The new guidance in #2007 has much worse behavior with this bug.

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