SpaceX's Ship 36 catastrophically failed while preparing for a static fire test.
SpaceX's Ship 36 catastrophically failed while preparing for a static fire test.
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The static fire (at Massey's) hadn't actually started. Unclear how the ground systems are doing. At least it's a pretty night explosion?
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Unclear how the ground systems are doing.
We won't know for sure until sunrise, but it seems like a fair bit of the infrastructure surrounding the test stand at Massey's may have gotten torched by the fireball.
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Nbd just rebrand it as a dynamic fire test ezpz
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don't move that fast dudes
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Ouch!
Looks like something near the header tank started ripping apart along the downcomer. O2 was nearly full, just a little bit of methane. Since pure oxygen tends to make almost anything burn if there's a flame, that probably burned down quite a lot of stuff around the pieces of Ship 36.
On the bright side, the payload door opened this time!