But it may take longer than that to get the necessary approvals.
on April 20, blasting a big crater out beneath the site's orbital launch mount with its 33 Raptor engines. "The debris is really just basically sand and rock, so it's not toxic at all or anything,"said on Saturday night."It's just like a sandstorm, essentially — basically a human-made sandstorm. But we don't want to do that again."
And SpaceX is taking measures to prevent a recurrence, he added. The company plans to replace the destroyed concrete beneath Starbase's orbital launch mount with a sturdy steel plate, which will spout water to deal with Super Heavy's powerful exhaust. The new system"is basically a water-jacketed sandwich that's two layers of plate steel that are also perforated on the upper side," Musk said, comparing it to a"massive, super-strong steel shower head pointing upward."
3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch.Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months.
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