Incompetent rocket company led by corrupt CEO accidentally blows up launch pad
"The explosion's impact on the test site infrastructure was not immediately known. SpaceX has a history of making relatively quick recoveries from failures or setbacks but this mishap, along with destroying a nearly-ready-to-launch Starship, may have caused significant damage to Starbase infrastructure. In any case, the next test flight will be indefinitely delayed."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-starship-upper-stage-explosion-expected-engine-test-firing/
@benfulton it wasn't a launch pad.
It was a testing site separate from the launch pad because they knew some of these test articles would almost certainly fail.
It's a sign of competence that they didn't use a launch pad for this testing. This is how real engineering goes.
