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All rockets (during launch) are more sensitive to lightning strikes than planes. That's a given: the exhaust plume conducts electricity. Compared to F9, BFR is
by greglindahl 9y ago
All rockets (during launch) are more sensitive to lightning strikes than planes. That's a given: the exhaust plume conducts electricity.
Compared to F9, BFR is fatter and would have less trouble with high-altitude winds at launch.
Now landing weather, that's another thing.
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