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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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[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 90 points 1 day ago (13 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.

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] iborrelli@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated: The front fell off

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

Chance in a million!

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