A massive spray of concrete chunks into the engine bells didn’t help, but Starship’s Raptor 2s are having reliability issues independent of the launch site failure. They went into the test with multiple engines nonfunctional right from the start and anticipating that more would shut down. I think the launch wouldn’t have achieved its stated trajectory even if the pad had held.
A massive spray of concrete chunks into the engine bells didn’t help, but Starship’s Raptor 2s are having reliability issues independent of the launch site failure. They went into the test with multiple engines nonfunctional right from the start and anticipating that more would shut down. I think the launch wouldn’t have achieved its stated trajectory even if the pad had held.