SpaceX hopes the technology will prevent Starship from blasting another crater into the launch pad during its next flight test.
Surely a decimated launch pad after every launch wouldn't be in keeping with SpaceX's plans for driving down costs with its reusable rocket?that SpaceX was already working on a way to reduce the damage during future launches. The company was developing "a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount," Musk wrote.
Starship became the world's most powerful rocket when it took to the skies last month. The launch system's 33 first-stage Raptor engines produced about 17 million lbs of thrust at launch. As many pointed out after the launch, this immense power blasted a crater at SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas.
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