congrats jeffy you somehow made an explosion that make the starship tests look like fireworks
May all Jeff Bezos’s ventures be similarly successful.
Damn, that’s going to set Blue Origin back several months, maybe a year. Wishing them all the best. The market could really use the competition.
They were starting to ramp up into what seemed like it could be a decent cadence, too. This is not going to be a quick turnaround. A year long stand down might still not be enough to rebuild the pad. This one hurts.
Oh well, what’s another 8 billion tax dollars.
Definitely a year or more.
The Falcon 9 that blew up on SLC40 took over a year, and that was a much smaller explosion. The only reason SpaceX was able to launch a Falcon again so quickly was because that next launch was from pad 39A instead.
The xcancel thread with the video: https://xcancel.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2060164928472854821#m
