Why did you feel the need to post this comment?

>Why did you feel the need to post this comment?

Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures?

I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm usually focused on new research rather than what company/nation did said research... but their stuff does seem to blow up on the launchpad more often than NASA's :-)

	▲	inglor_cz 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		NASA does not produce any launch vehicles. It produces payloads and buys launch services from others. Unless you count test artifacts, an actual catastrophic failure of a rocket on a launchpad (or even in flight) has been rare in the last 10 years.