Latest candidate for SpaceX pad explosion
Sylvia Else wrote:
Still, its customers might reasonably expect their satellites to be
launched on proven hardware, operated in the proven way, with
experiments involved with innovation done on hardware that isn't
launching an expensive satellite.
In some cases, rockets have been qualified by launching dummy satellites
(just a block of concrete or lead of the proper mass), but of course then
some people consider this a waste of resources and a pollution of space.
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