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Why SpaceX is facing HUGE RISK of the launch tower in first starship launch...

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SpaceX is now continuing to work around the clock to prepare its latest Starship and Super Heavy booster prototypes for testing for the first orbital flight.
Notably, SpaceX appears to be preparing Starship 24 and Super Heavy Booster 7 for their first ‘full stack’ demonstration!

This is closely related to Starbase's Orbital launch tower named Mechazilla! The Mechazilla robot arms created by SpaceX are lovingly referred to as chopstick arms. These mechanical arms have been built to make lifting, moving, and stacking the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy boosters easier and quicker. The standard options, such as cranes, also accomplish this feat, but cranes are more susceptible to wind than the mechanical robot arms SpaceX has created. The chopstick arms have also been made to catch part of the Starship as it returns to Earth, saving time, energy, and resources.

SpaceX recently is upgrading these arms, for example, the ship lifting points on the chopsticks have been deployed as you can see here.

SpaceX certainly has a lot of work to do with the Mechazilla, as the company plans to catch the Super Heavy on the first orbital flight.

Remember last month, the SpaceX chopsticks hydraulics system failed during a test on Aug. 6, 2022?

The failure caused an explosion and created questions about safety.
Elon Musk tweeted a confirmation of the hiccup by saying, "I love the smell of hydraulic fluid in the morning." The hydraulic failure occurred on the evening of Aug. 6, as SpaceX personnel were preparing to load Booster 7, which was parked after the failed set-up. 
It looks like steam coming from the area the hydraulics sit. No fire occurred, nothing was damaged, and no one was harmed. 
This is good news, especially looking forward to the Starship's first orbital flight. However, the failure has led many spectators to wonder what would have happened if the hydraulics system had failed during a lift. The short answer is that it could have been catastrophic. However, the hydraulics failure was not disastrous, and it will lead SpaceX engineers to improve their work so that the mistake will not happen during a lift or any other mission.

While hydraulics hoses are known to fail from time to time, people are worried that the failure could have been worse had it happened during a lift. 
Why SpaceX is facing HUGE RISK of the launch tower in first starship launch...