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NerdyLumberjack04 t1_j1rce0y wrote

According to Stack Exchange, such systems have been proposed for nuclear reactors, because it would be a Very Bad Thing to leave it on a rocket on the verge of exploding.

Otherwise, the money and engineering effort it takes to build a launch escape system is simply better spent on making the original launch successful. Or just building a replacement satellite.

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