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I wonder if this was expected or not. This video immediately comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbUeO4iGhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbUeO4
by bob1029 4y ago
I wonder if this was expected or not. This video immediately comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbUeO4iGhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMbUeO4iGhY
(Why SpaceX Cares about Concrete)
This probably explains why some of the engines didn't make it off the pad. That is some incredible damage.
- adastra22 4y agoDepends on what you mean by "expected." It was absolutely not supposed to happen, although a lot of people in the industry have been shouting "we have flame trenches for a reason!"
- zizee 4y agoThey didn't want it to happen, but they definitely knew it was a strong possibility.
- uguuo_o 4y agoI have done work for NASA on this problem through SBIRs. The risks have been known for a long time, and to my team the extent of the damage was not surprising. NASA/SpaceX just don't have the computational tools to assess these types of risks at this time.