To non-rocket-scientists (and those who don’t play Kerbal Space Program), discussions of rocket science can sometimes get a little overly technical. To fully explain what we know about the SpaceX explosion in a non-PhD way, here’s some Paint-quality graphics.
https://gizmodo.com/a-single-weak-strut-caused-that-spacex-rocket-to-blow-u-1719101240
In the video above, YouTuber Scott Manley does a good job of breaking down everything we know about the recent SpaceX launch explosion. On a conference call yesterday, SpaceX reported preliminary findings that an overloaded strut inside the liquid oxygen broke free thanks to the G-force during launch, causing a chain reaction that eventually resulted in a fireball, 983 milliseconds later. It’s an interesting insight into not just the details of the rocket construction and crash, but also the forensic data-mining undertaken since the explosion.
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