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The system is designed to be able to abort from a deflagrating rocket without warning (although that was not the design of today's test, obviously). Today, Drag
by lutorm 7y ago
The system is designed to be able to abort from a deflagrating rocket without warning (although that was not the design of today's test, obviously). Today, Dragon was already well clear when the stage disintegrated 11s after the abort. Just eyeballing the footage, it's probably a km away.
- soheil 7y agoThanks for pointing that, it's obvious now that you say it. The next question is why didn't they just explode booster using the self-destruct sequence while the capsule is still attached to test a more realistic scenario?