• Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Roscosmos doesn’t consider clearing the launch tower to be a success. There is value in continuing to use proven technology.

    • AngryMob@lemmy.oneEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      Youre comparing a testing goal to an operational goal? How the hell is that even relevant?

      We’d all still be using steam engines with your logic, because the moment a gasoline engine blew up in testing we shoulda just given up! And jet engines for aircraft? What a waste of time!

      C’mon. You gotta be smarter than that.

      • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Eh? Both the Soyuz and Falcon 9 are proven spacecraft. That one abort was a fluke and the crew survived without injury. I’m sure they’ve put in some effort to make sure that abort won’t happen again.

    • becausechemistry@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      clearing the launch tower during a test launch with an experimental rocket that has no payload and no humans aboard is success

      managing to get into the right orbit without aborting using a rocket that’s launched since the 60s and is lit with giant matchsticks is success

      You, an idiot: “these are comparable”