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Yeah. It's one thing to blow up during test firings, or when trying completely novel maneuvers like the belly flop. It's another thing entirely to do that duri
by outworlder 4y ago
Yeah. It's one thing to blow up during test firings, or when trying completely novel maneuvers like the belly flop.
It's another thing entirely to do that during stage separation. Sure, historically separation has been risky, but it's nothing novel. They didn't seem to expect the vehicle to survive past that anyways.
There would be a delay even if another vehicle was ready to go - the launch site is a wreck.
- trey-jones 4y agoIf you were thrown by the explosion (automated termination, not some catastrophic failure), then you weren't listening to any of the media around the launch. This was a successful mission, gathering data for future launches. Expectations were set appropriately, so I think it's really just your problem for not listening. In addition, this isn't publicly funded, so it would seem if some of the people get spooked by not understanding the goals of a launch correctly, then it doesn't really matter that much.
- outworlder 4y ago> In addition, this isn't publicly funded, so it would seem if some of the people get spooked by not understanding the goals of a launch correctly, then it doesn't really matter that much. It does matter that we are scattering debris over a large area for no reason. It does not matter if that was done by the flight termination system or other mechanism.