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Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes in second test flight | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The space shuttle one uses a giant flame diverter trench. They aren't high enough above the water table at starbase to dig one, and they didn't want to make a giant 50ft tall hill (like at Kennedy) and wait for it to settle before building their tower. So they have a giant shower head instead that is much more aggressive with it's vibration and sound suppression so that the footprint is much smaller. One solution isn't necessarily better than the other, they have tradeoffs, but they are pretty different systems.