SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)

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[-] Lemmist@lemm.ee 102 points 2 days ago

Clickbaiters are worse than Putin. Disgusting creatures.

Saving you a click:

SpaceX believes that vibrations caused a failure of a fuel line in the aft section of the upper stage (i.e., Starship, not its Super Heavy booster), leading to a fuel leak.

[-] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

[-] iborrelli@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

For the uninitiated: The front fell off

[-] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Chance in a million!

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