alt Hacker NewsBlowing up on the pad is incredibly worse from a design data collection perspective, a risk to life perspective, and a downstream impact to future launches perspective (nobody can use that site for a couple of months).
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senectus1 • today at 4:58 AM
not to mention 7 days before it was meant to deliver a payload to space... a proper commercial payload. not just a POC payload.
To be fair the last Starship to blowup on launchpad/ground was less than a year ago. It is a set back but it appears nobody has avoided this issue yet.
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/spacexs-...