SpaceX was not prepared.
Overall, it's more damage than what SpaceX engineers — or at least their CEO — were anticipating.
Leading up to the launch date, Musk shared the mission's "low" bar for success: "Just don't blow up the launchpad," he said in a live Twitter Spaces session,After Starship's launch, when it became immediately clear that the launchpad was anything but intact, Musk soon gave his tentative analysis. "The engines when they throttled up may have shattered the concrete, rather than simply eroding it," he said in a"We wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that [the concrete] would make it through one launch," he added.
and implement a few precautions that are widely used in other big rocket launches, as some are arguing.
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