| ▲ | firefax an hour ago | |
>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 an hour 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. | ||