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

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 days ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated: The front fell off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Chance in a million!

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