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FAA grounds SpaceX Starship program after recent failed launch spread debris and particulates


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SpaceX Starship explosion leaves researchers looking for answers about health and environmental impacts from debris and particulate emissions.

 

 

Musk decided to skip an integral part of the launch pad construction process and it resulted in concrete being blasted all over the place (possibly the ultimate cause of the rocket explosion). And of course he tweeted about it beforehand for the receipts:

 

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To be fair, the FAA has grounded every commercial rocket after experiencing any sort of mission ending anomaly.  Even if the launch pad was left completely intact, but the rocket failed at some point in the flight, the FAA would have told SpaceX to pause any further launches until an investigation takes place, along with remediating actions.

 

 

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31 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

To be fair, the FAA has grounded every commercial rocket after experiencing any sort of mission ending anomaly.  Even if the launch pad was left completely intact, but the rocket failed at some point in the flight, the FAA would have told SpaceX to pause any further launches until an investigation takes place, along with remediating actions.

 

 


Musk doesn’t read D1P :p

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2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

To be fair, the FAA has grounded every commercial rocket after experiencing any sort of mission ending anomaly.  Even if the launch pad was left completely intact, but the rocket failed at some point in the flight, the FAA would have told SpaceX to pause any further launches until an investigation takes place, along with remediating actions.

 

 

 

First flights often fail too. That one Astra rocket launched sideways. 

 

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20 minutes ago, outsida said:

It’s not the rocket failure that caused this it’s the debris shit storm it caused and Elon didn’t have any measures to stop it. 

 

I've been a rocket nerd almost my whole life.  Trust me - the FAA would have grounded Starship even if the pad had survived.  Every single recent mission failure of a US commercial rocket company has resulted in a pause in operations by the FAA so the company can investigate and fix the issues.  

 

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But Rocket Lab is still investigating what happened to cause last month's failure.

 

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The investigation's timeline is unclear after Blue Origin's rocket launch failure on Sept. 12.

 

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By Andrew Griggs, Head of Mission Assurance, and Adam London, Founder and Chief Technical Officer

 

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It was the second launch failure in as many days, following that of a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket.

 

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