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Why wouldn't they? A rocket doesn't have eyes, and they get all the data through telemetry anyway.

• aphextron 6y ago
  >A rocket doesn't have eyes, and they get all the data through telemetry anyway. Well sure, but people still have eyes. You would want to visually see what's happening with your rocket test wouldn't you? It just makes no sense why they didn't scrub for a few hours. Especially given the abundance of caution SpaceX has always shown with that.
  • Denvercoder9 6y ago
    > You would want to visually see what's happening with your rocket wouldn't you? Not really? You'd just see it explode, not much information to be gained from that. > It just makes no sense why they didn't scrub for a few hours for it to clear out Winds (which are much more dangerous for a rocket than fog) were forecasted to pick up later in the day.
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  • gpm 6y ago
    > Especially given the abundance of caution SpaceX has always shown with that. SpaceX treats customer payloads with an abundance of caution, internal tests... not so much.