(July 13, 2024 at 1:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(July 13, 2024 at 12:27 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: I'm guessing they've stopped doing QC and full maintenance on the rockets, given how hard up the company is.
With a LOX leak, they're lucky it didn't explode.
Depends on how you define "explode". If you watch the second stage burn, there was a pretty violent sudden expansion of the reflective protective foil right before the ice crystals started forming out of the "bottom" of it.
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