Gentle note that LC-39 was designed with post-Saturn giants in mind so
there really isn’t a reason why *not*.
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 8:21 PM roxanna Mason <rocketmaster.ken@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Saturn 5 had a stand alone bifurcated uncooled flame deflector set
into a concrete flame trench, it seems like SpaceX could duplicate
something similar.
Ken
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 4:09 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023, Keith and Mary Stormo wrote:
There is very little distance from the surface to the water table.
That makes a trench unlikely. It is likely that they will have some
type of above ground diverter system...
Which is what KSC does as well, for the same reason: a classic flame
trench basically doesn't work for a low-lying coastal launch site. The
bottoms of the LC-39 "flame trenches" are actually level with the
surrounding ground. They're not dug down; rather, the surrounding pad
foundation was built up around them.
Henry