Eli5: “Why do spacecraft keep exploding, when we figured out to make them work ages ago?”

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I know its literally rocket science and a lot of very complex systems need to work together, but shouldnt we be able to iterate on a working formular?

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Most rockets don’t explode. We have a formula to send things to space. However when we push the limits, and experiment in making our rockets better, we often fail.

SpaceX in particular, when testing their rockets use rapid testing models for development. They make changes and test it, see where it went wrong and improve it. So they have lots of failures by design

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