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Re:So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a su... by drfrank on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:33AM (#35673867)
Elon wrote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784

> 3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.

> Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch.

To me, it sounds like people that would have been considered experts (and probably still are) made assessments than turned out to be incorrect.

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Re:So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a su... by armada651 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @02:37AM (#35673903)
Feels more like experts were ignored for too long. Why did they only start 3 months ago on a solution when they already knew the rocket was going to exert a massive amount of thrust on the launch pad from day 1?
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Re:So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a su... by sundvor on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:39AM (#35674188)
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