SpaceX’s first Starship/Super Heavy launch torched through its concrete launchpad, scattering debris as far away as Port Isabel, Texas, about 6 mi. from the launch site.
SpaceX had planned to reinforce the Starship/Super Heavy concrete launch mount with water-cooled steel plates before the world’s most powerful booster lifted off with twice the thrust of a Saturn V or a Space Launch System Moon rocket. But that would have meant delaying the vehicle’s flight test...
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