> Literally EVERYONE said the cement base was a stupid idea and yet Elon had to trump his own experts.
Do you have more information on this? My quick googling turned up nothing.
Do you have more information on this? My quick googling turned up nothing.
> In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches, as the Army Corps of Engineering permitting required to add these civil engineering systems is itself a multi-year process.
> No large rocket complex on the planet: not in Russia, nor China, and certainly not in the US, exists that doesn’t contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590279
https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to