Not a good start, failure rate is now officially worse than NASA's manned failures (1 in 23)
It does make me wonder how reliable an ICBM really is, and if one was launced from a silo in the middle of the US, would it have fallen in the US?
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SpaceX 'Splosion.
Not a good start, failure rate is now officially worse than NASA's manned failures (1 in 23)
It does make me wonder how reliable an ICBM really is, and if one was launced from a silo in the middle of the US, would it have fallen in the US?
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I watched the video on nytimes website. BUMMER! Also, crazy that thing was moving 1 km/s!
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Re: SpaceX 'Splosion.
An ICBM falling after launch wouldn't really matter, it wouldn't be a nuclear detonation. It would be a localized problem of radioactive material from the warheads.Originally posted by ZenOps
Not a good start, failure rate is now officially worse than NASA's manned failures (1 in 23)
It does make me wonder how reliable an ICBM really is, and if one was launced from a silo in the middle of the US, would it have fallen in the US?
Also, isn't the SpaceX's first accident? The crashes on landing hardly count, they're trying to do something that's never been done, but I thought the launch vehicles were pretty reliable.
Space is hard. Things go wrong, and often.
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