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To: Red Badger

They don’t call them “blast zones” without a reason. Seen a couple of them pop.


2 posted on 05/29/2026 7:10:53 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman
Oh yeah. SpaceX learned many lessons from the launch pad damages they have incurred with launches and explosions.

I had to laugh at their first attempt with the Starship, that completely demolished their pad and left a 40 foot deep crater, even though everyone was saying "Don't you need more than just a pad?" and they confidently said "Nope."

Then they built another pad, with many more design elements in it, and that still wasn't good enough, it still got damaged.

Finally, they built what might be as close as anyone can get to a launch facility which is built as robustly as can be done, although I think if that thing blows up on the pad, it will be one of the largest human caused non-nuclear explosions in history!

But that is the thing I admire about SpaceX. They seem absolutely fearless in these things, and they DO learn from them...and extraordinarily quickly, too. Amazing.

16 posted on 05/29/2026 7:58:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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