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One really bad accident could shut down Kennedy and Cape Canaveral for a year. Experimental work must be done in Boca Chica.
by RecycledEle 3y ago
One really bad accident could shut down Kennedy and Cape Canaveral for a year.
Experimental work must be done in Boca Chica.
- rtkwe 3y agoThere's a lot of empty land at Kennedy to provide separation between the experimental testing and the normal launches.
- pixl97 3y agoSo what you're saying is that SpaceX should shut everything down each time they launch a falcon 9... of with they do an insane number of times per year. When launches happen there they interrupt everything.
- rtkwe 3y agoIf that's going to be a problem with testing it's going to be a problem if/when they actually start using Super Heavy as something other than a debris machine...
- pixl97 3y ago>as something other than a debris machine Comments like this is why governments don't make their own rockets these days. "OMG the test article blew up, how could that possible happen!"
- _joel 3y agoThey were also told no test articles at KSC. A loss of GSE there would massively impact their bottom line with F9 launch cadence going to pot.
- _joel 3y agonot sure why you're being downvoted, you're correct. They're not allowed to launch test articles at KSC, precisely as it'd impact their capability to launch F9 and other launch providers close by.