Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its fully stacked Starship for the first time a little over a week ago.
As NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Thursday that SpaceX "blew a hole in that launchpad."
"I have asked, so I can report to you, that as of today SpaceX is still saying that they think it will take at least two months to rebuild the launchpad and concurrently about two months to have their second vehicle ready to launch," NASA chief Nelson told lawmakers Thursday, providing the most recent update on the company's timeline for returning to flight.
One potential solution: Musk said SpaceX is "building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount." He said the plate was not "ready in time" for the first attempt and admitted that the company "wrongly thought" that the concrete would withstand the launch.A dust cloud grows underneath Starship as the rocket launches on its Super Heavy booster from Texas on April 20, 2023.
week that the Starship launch started a 3.5-acre fire on land owned by Texas' Boca Chica State Park. FWS did not find dead wildlife on the local refuge lands, which are a habitat for endangered species, but found that the rocket's destructive force flung concrete and metal "thousands of feet away" and created a cloud of dust and pulverized concrete that fell as far as 6.5 miles from the launch site.
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