• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    people following such things might remember the huge amount of explosions Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies starting rocket projects –privat or otherwise– tend to produce in the beginning

    They generally don’t. SpaceX is pretty much the only company blowing up rockets on the regular. Everyone else actually does testing.

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      12 hours ago

      SpaceX is just worse but there were still a lot of explosions etc over the years. Ariane 5 for example used the tried and tested software of its predecessor… and failed rather spectacular mid-air when its higher accelaration paired with 16bit to 64bit conversion caused a buffer overflow.

      Or to quote what I consider a modern classic nowadays: “They say Space is hard…” *sing*

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        10 hours ago

        Sure, but the expectations of most launches is that they work. SpaceX is the only one which repeatedly expects to fail doing the same thing.