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Surely not as favorable for the IPO as SpaceX’s own recent explosion and multiple engine failures?
by 7e 4mo ago
Surely not as favorable for the IPO as SpaceX’s own recent explosion and multiple engine failures?
- kortilla 4mo agoBlowing up on the pad is incredibly worse from a design data collection perspective, a risk to life perspective, and a downstream impact to future launches perspective (nobody can use that site for a couple of months).
- HerbManic 4mo agoTo be fair the last Starship to blowup on launchpad/ground was less than a year ago. It is a set back but it appears nobody has avoided this issue yet. https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/spacexs-starship-explodes-on-texas-launch-pad-in-catastrophic-failure-during-routine-test https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/spacexs-...
- testing22321 4mo agoThat was on a test stand, NOT a launchpad. Vastly different destroying each of those.
- HerbManic 4mo agoI will give you that. Better to blow up in a test rather than ready for launch.
- senectus1 4mo agonot to mention 7 days before it was meant to deliver a payload to space... a proper commercial payload. not just a POC payload.
- testing22321 4mo agoThe entire point of SpaceX’s recent launch was an explosion. They were aiming for that outcome. They wanted that outcome. The fact they did it with pinpoint accuracy even with engine issues and an in tact heat shield is a monumental success for a test flight.
- verzali 4mo agoSpaceX also had a massive explosion on the ground not that long ago.
- testing22321 4mo agoAbsolutely, they were running a test on a test stand. For BO it’s much better to have this now when there is no payload or people on board so they can correct whatever the issue is.
- rdtsc 4mo agoIf anything their one engine out unexpected but successful test boosts their position a bit.
- TheOtherHobbes 4mo agoAfter separation that turned into all engines out on the booster, so perhaps not.
- rdtsc 4mo agoI meant the engine on the Raptor. But yeah good point about the booster. However that's nowhere near as large of a set back as this explosion