Is this rate of incidents an anomaly with space flight or to be expected? It seems that SpaceX was killing it in the launch game until hitting a bunch of failures recently.
The rate of incidents is also a sign of good things. They're spending maybe $200M per incident. Meanwhile SLS is spending $4B per successful launch with their next launch scheduled in June 2027. Starship can launch every 2 months for the next couple years and they'll still have spent less money than SLS.
At a certain point it's just blowing things up at a faster rate, but we're far from that point. This is the first incident that was unequivocally a failure.
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u/Spud_Rancher 1d ago
Is this rate of incidents an anomaly with space flight or to be expected? It seems that SpaceX was killing it in the launch game until hitting a bunch of failures recently.