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		panick21_ on April 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after laun... Äh sorry but you are simply wrong. SpaceX was the first company to get certification to not have 'guy with button' anymore and have certified hardware on board that this job. This was vital part of how they decreased labor cost and increases launch rate. As far as I know SpaceX has not launched in the traditional way since Falcon 1 and I am sure that they would never launch Starship that way.

justin66 on April 21, 2023 [–]

That's intriguing. Where can we read more about this?

panick21_ on April 25, 2023 | [–]

Start with the wikipedia article on 'Range Safety'. Seems I was wrong, SpaceX started this only later, not already with Falcon 9.

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