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To: Pearls Before Swine
but blew up about three minutes into the flight, at the point when it was due to separate from its booster.

From what I heard and saw (on video), it was supposed to flip, then separate, but the flip just kept going on and on. It looked like they might have done a self-destruct.
4 posted on 04/20/2023 8:19:07 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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SpaceX called it a “rapid disassembly” LOL. Talk about lipstick on porcines. IOW, it fell apart during the uncontrolled flipping. This was merely a launch test to see if, in Elon’s words, 1. It could launch; it did. 2. it would melt the launchpad on launch. It didn’t.


39 posted on 04/20/2023 9:00:09 AM PDT by jpp113
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Lockheed had a launch of a private company rocket that was supposed to gradually turn at altitude and then separate. A fire on board caused the controls to be lost in the turn and the rocket did multiple flips. Likely the SpaceX rocket was attempting the same manuever. In the case of the Lockheed rocket, it finally separated but by this time the guidance was fouled and we had to issue a successful destruct command.


43 posted on 04/20/2023 9:03:02 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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