What will be ultimate answer for the SpaceX Starship launchpad? Will it be the water-cooled steel plate, an enhanced version of the water-cooled steel plate or a flame trench?
The launchpad needs to be improved to prevent the rocket from digging a large hole and creating a rock tornado.
SpaceX answer for the Starship launchpad will need to be repeated at eventually hundreds of launch sites. If the full Super heavy booster and Starship are mass-produced and launched from many locations at a weekly cadence then launch sites could scale into the hundreds.
Starship upper stage-only launches for rapid air cargo deliveries would only have 25% of the launch power of the booster.
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