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To: tomkat
I missed the live launch, but am wondering if debris from the booster blowing up may have caused the upper stage explosion ?

Nope. Far apart from each other. Both exploded from flight termination software and hardware.

The booster deviated from it's scheduled return trajectory, and was automatically terminated. Quite a while later, the upper stage ship deviated from it's suborbital trajectory and the flight termination software triggered the termination of the ship. All it takes is for the ship to be off one degree of it's orbit, for it to hit Hawaii rather than land in the water nearby. Safer to terminate it than try to nudge it back on trajectory.

73 posted on 11/18/2023 12:17:08 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat

Yes, and thanks for that.
A couple posters upthread explained it as well, as I’d not yet seen video re Starship having done it’s sep and gotten waaaay downrange.

Musk and the SpaceX team are doing amazing work, and would be even further along if the worthless Feds would get the hell out of their way.


74 posted on 11/18/2023 12:23:34 PM PST by tomkat
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