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SpaceX just lost a rocket

psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
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Their Falcon 9 rocket just blew up during a flight to the ISS. I guess a loss was inevitable at some point, but it still hurt to watch. :(
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    Had to happen sometime. Even as good at rocketry as we've gotten, we still lose something like one in every hundred rockets.
  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Member Posts: 1,606 Arc User
    Yeah, there's nothing that can prevent such a thing absolutely. There will always be the random risk of something going wrong. Such is the way with everything in life.
  • lilchibiclarililchibiclari Member Posts: 1,193 Arc User
    Still not nearly as bad as the Vanguard satellites in the 1950s where only three succeeded out of eleven launches, or the Ranger lunar impact probes, which had six failed missions before the first success. This is, after all, rocket science.
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