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It's rocket science - rocketry is a mature engineering discipline. NASA found out in the 1960's that you need a flame trench + water deluge system to manage the
by HarryHirsch 3y ago
It's rocket science - rocketry is a mature engineering discipline. NASA found out in the 1960's that you need a flame trench + water deluge system to manage the exhaust plume, especially the vibrations.
What happened to the idea of baking in a generous safety margin. Fred Brooks had a whole chapter on Brooklyn Bridge, at some point projects are so large that you cannot run them by pantseat.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoAnd SpaceX has a culture of not overbuilding. "The best part is no part", "If you're not adding back 10% of the parts you deleted, you're not deleting enough parts". That culture is a good part of the reason they are completely wiping the floor of the competition. The Falcon9 v1.2 is the only rocket that has flown more than 5 times and has never failed a mission so it's hard to question the SpaceX safety culture.