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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by bumby on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:25PM (#27852459)
I think they’re doing a good job but I don’t think that was a reasonable error. I give them slack in the areas where they’re pushing the into unknown boundaries of engineering. Regarding the COPV, I wish they would’ve added to the fundamental science by really investing in understanding and researching the failure. Unfortunately, they just changed the design and left the fundamental science to NASA, but I guess you can make the case that’s not SpaceX’s role. That strut case, however, is a well known risk within industry that they just didn’t manage very well.

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