What also didn’t help was the take-off acceleration. Looked pretty marginal on
1st glance with the 3 lost engines, although that may’ve been more illusionary
with the shear size of the rocket and everything else there.
Troy
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
roxanna Mason
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 3:10 PM
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Subject: [AR] SpaceX pad post launch
Here's a pic of the SpeceX launch pad after today's launch, sorry for the poor
quality but it's enough to see how destructive the rocket exhausts were on a
flat concrete pad regardless of how good the quality was. Remember when a
supersonic rocket plume hits a flat plate it stagnates at a good percentage of
the chamber pressure and temperature,i.e. 4000 psi at 6000F, take it around 50
to 90% of those figures.