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Good news: the rockets are reusable now. Bad news: the launchpads are disposable.
by ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Good news: the rockets are reusable now.
Bad news: the launchpads are disposable.
- manv1 4y agoThere are a lot of people looking to say bad things about SpaceX, and they're feeding the anti-Musk machine. That said, everything SpaceX does going forward is going to be scrutinized because there's billions of dollars at stake for the other vendors...and they really want SpaceX to fail. Dust? Problems with the launch pad? Someone will try to escalate that into some kind of apocalyptic scenario. At one point someone will say something about their affect on sea life and migratory bird patterns.
- yellowapple 4y agoThere's already at least one person in these comments trying to escalate the things you mention - including the sea life and migratory bird patterns - into something far more than the nothingburger it currently is. I don't like Musk - in fact, I largely loathe him - but that doesn't mean I have to loathe literally everyone else at SpaceX, too.
- karp773 4y agoYou are joking but it looks like SpaceX did not invest as much resources into modeling their launchpads as into modeling their spacecrafts. The starship and the starship heavy held together (no pun intended) really well despite all the incidents on the launchpad. I think the starship vehicles are almost there. I would not be surprised if the next launch with a proper launchpad will be a success.