Both lost Starships suffered the same malfunction. Both Starships were the first of the Block II ships: a complete redesign from the successful Block I ships.
Sabotage has nothing to do with it - failure is expected. Success just paves the way for additions which in them selves can fail. Its failure to success or test to failure program. Nothing is expected to work the first time or the second.
Focus instead on the 3rd successful booster catch.
My wife had this to say about it...
“” If it happens once, it’s normal. It happens twice, it’s suspicious. If it happens a third time....it’s almost certainly deliberate.”
Again, I’m going off the insane hatred I’m seeing online by Libs and Dems again st Elon and the President.
Amen. And remember that the Block 1 Starships were more or less empty shells with engines and tanks. The Block II Starship is representative of an actual Starlink-launching vehicle, and this example was carrying simulated Starlink satellites for a test deployment (had the mission gone that far.)
This is SpaceX's modus operandi: Rapid design, iterations, evaluate failures. They don't spend years and years designing one version, then only launch when they're 100% sure it's going to work.