Dafuq they doing over there
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SpaceX are on track to launch 130 times this year. The industry competitors launch 6-12 times per year.
I suspect the higher incident rate is related, since you will need to manufacture, roll out, etc.. much more often.
The article also talks about most the incidents being in booster recovery. Only 2 Space competitors do that,
Blue Origins sub orbital booster always returned to launch site and at best managed monthly launch. This rocket hasn't launched in more than a year.
Rocket Lab perform ocean recovery but only launched 11 times last year and only recovered the booster twice.
So its hard to really compare
Still, the specific injuries sound gruesome, like amputations and crushing. And sure, to a degree this just happens if you do something often enough, but we have safety standards for a reason, it's wild to me that this isn't something where safety is paramount.
After all, think about all the product that could get damaged! ๐
Elongated Muskrat runs his companies like the cyberpunk villain he aspires to be. Wouldnโt be surprised if all the employees at his companies signed over their physical bodies and implants as part of an NDA because he lives in a fantasy land where itโs 2019 rain-drenched fire-spewing-tower L.A.
Of course Elon Musk doesn't actually run SpaceX
This image gives me Subnautica vibes.
Musk is trying to make the US labor board unconstitutional. The reason why is outrageously transparent based on this article. Fuck that monster.
A previous Reuters investigation found that the approximately 600 reported injuries in 2022 included crushed limbs, cuts, burns, eye injuries, electrocutions, amputations, and serious head injuries, according to the news outlet, which noted that data from prior years are either incomplete or non-existent.
Oh my lanta.
Injuries such as guy got stuck in the rocket during countdown, guy minding his own business when rocket part fell on him and it was still burning. Probably things like that... parking at the wrong place during horizontal engine tests, etc.
This tells me a lot not just about SpaceX but also "industry norms."
TRW got us to from Pioneer to the fucking moon without shitting on unions or massively injuring their workers.
Elon takes his parents blood money and buys Tom Muellerโฆ yet people act like itโs the second coming of Jesus while the same engineers now suffer for his ego.
All so a single trust fund baby can claim land in LEO.
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