Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon
by dylan604 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:27PM
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The launch of this material is probably safer than the transportation of that material to the loading/launch facility.
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Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon
by vkou on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:15PM
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It's not, the probability of a SpaceX rocket spectacularly exploding is somewhere around ~1%. They'd need 860 more problem-free launches to hit ~0.1%.
The probability of a truck spectacularly exploding on its way to the launch facility is way less than 0.1%. In fact, it's astronomically lower than 0.1%.
Re:A bevy of rovers heading for the Moon
by jessriedel on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:19PM
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> They'd need 860 more problem-free launches to hit ~0.1%
For what it's worth, SpaceX claims that they intend to reach this level of safety by literally performing thousands of launches. Time will tell if they can do that.