Originally Posted by
ORAC
They could have launched - might have lost tiles, might have damaged the arms, maybe not - but there is no point in sitting around doing nothing, so they carried out the updates that otherwise would just have been done for the next launch.
The Starship is a throw away anyway and they have a second launch tower they would have been ready for the next launch if tower one had been damaged.
Tower 2 is unlikely to be ready for use until in to next year...
The tower is up, but the catch arms, launch mount, deluge system etc are nowhere near being installed.
There's talk of a flame trench too...
There's also tower 3 going up at the Cape...