Resembling a gigantic bidet for rockets, the deluge system is meant to minimize damage at the pad when Starship takes flight.
The Elon Musk-led company—the—likely chose to fly Starship without the benefit of launch suppression infrastructure, either because it underplayed the potential risks or because it’s under tremendous pressure to get the rocket up and running; the company is under two lucrative NASA contracts to leverage Starship as a lunar lander for the Artemis 3 and 4 missions. But I’m speculating; only Elon knows the reason.
A diverter is a metal structure placed on the launch pad underneath the rocket to divert the rocket plume laterally away from the ground. SpaceX is also still considering whether it would use deluge water during a launch or test.The problematic April flight, in which the 394-foot Starship blew up just four minutes after lift-off, is indeed pushing SpaceX to invest in adequate suppression infrastructure .
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