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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by xwvvvvwx on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:48PM (#12407860)
Surely still much cheaper than a two hundred million dollar satellite?
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by mandevil on Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:30PM (#12408183)
And at what frequency would it save the payload? In 85-95% of cases, payload is safely delivered to space, so the dummy just slows things down. In most of the remaining cases the payload is lost on it's actual ride into space (e.g. the last time SpaceX had a problem, CRS-7) where a dummy can't help. There have been a handful of pad accidents involving loss of payload, but they are very much the exception to the rule about the exception to the rule.