Recent content by BobAchgill

So, yes, I am agreeing with you that much more guidance is needed @Marcd2k

The blame can mostly be on a flawed process whereby a commercial company is being given oversite by a government agency that has little experience in rockets. At least it should be an interagency affair to license. (NASA, OSHA, etc, including the military that will need to shoot it down if for...

Good find @Vitaliy Good find! @vitiral Paragraph 3.1.2 does allow for a case of as high as 30%. It is interesting that propellant weight to tnt yield is double test stand vs launchpad explosion. I would guess it's because there is historically more mixing happening of the propellants in the...

All the talk from Elon worrying about what will happen to the launch tower if a launchpad mishap, but there is no possible failure mode accounted for in the licence to what will happen to the public if there is a launchpad explosion. My research shows that a 1K ton of TNT equivalent...