MossRoad
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Yikes!
Yeah somewhere North of 13000000 lb of thrust
Here is a screen shot
It looks to have excavated under the launch mount
The ever optimistic Elon Musk posted that the launch pad and Starship will be ready for another test launch in 6-8 weeks. They had already started to build a water cooled steel flame trench that didn't get installed before the first launch. BUT... no idea when the FAA will give clearance for the next launch, especially since the 'destruct' sequence took longer to initiate than it should have.
Some of the speculation I have read is that Elon made the announcement he did about the timeline of being ready was to help prod the FAA into not dragging their feet approving the next launch.If SpaceX gets the launch mount rebuilt with the improvements needed in a timely manner, Sure hope the FAA doesn't hamstring them for an extended period.
Based on initial static tests they felt it was not needed for this launch. They felt it would be needed for future launches and that is why they were in the process of building the water cooled flame trench, to be installed before the next launch. Somewhere I saw a tweet from Musk indicating this, and he admitted they were obviously wrong.I was very surprised when I read there was no impingement barrier or flame trench with water on the launch pad. Oversight or just stupidity?