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SpaceX's Rocket Explodes Due to Rapid Unscheduled Digging
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoThere's an interesting [leaked] picture that shows structural damage to the rocket. Scott explains that that is a consequence of the aerodynamic drag vs gravity due to fuel being only in the starship and the SuperHeavy being empty.
- homeless_engi 4y agoDoes anyone have insight into why the static fire test did not reveal stage 0 issues?
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThey did. But there was a leadership decision to go ahead anyways.
- throwawaymobule 4y agoThey didn't light all of the engines for the static test, I think.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoWell if engines can be damaged this way, then idea of Starship landing on unprepared Moon surface and then taking off can be tossed into the bin.
- credit_guy 4y agoNot really. The booster has 33 engines that go at full throttle during launch. Tha Starship has only 3 engines. Only one or two of them are used when landing here, on Earth. It stands to reason that on the Moon or Mars, with their much lower gravity, only one engine will need to be used, and only at partial throttle.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoOr possibly multiple of them at very low throttle to help with stability.