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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by vultour on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:47AM (#38259925)
Well the FTS failed on the first launch, so if there was a guidance malfunction it could have probably hit something outside of the designated safe area. Fixing it was a prerequisite for the second launch so I assume it's not going to happen again.
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by ethbr1 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:06PM (#38267047)
Guidance failure is my perspective.

There's a practical argument to be made that acceleration + range control = rocket detonated before it leaves bounds.

But from a physics worst-case perspective, if something can move itself to orbit it can move itself plenty far terrestrially.

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