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Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bruh its a TEST STAND TEST STAND this is not the Frist time a engine exploded on a test stand raptor engines in their development phase are supposed to explode. Elon musk has said if something doesn't explode then you did something wrong

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Well, if Musk said it, it must be true. /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

If you're testing for fail state, sure.

If you're testing for sustained burn, you fucked up. Time to science and figure up how to unfuck it.