Comments on: Latest SpaceX Mission Ends In Explosion https://www.teslarati.com/latest-spacex-mission-ends-explosion/ Tesla news, rumors and reviews. SpaceX, Elon Musk, batteries, energy, premium EV market. Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: vdiv https://www.teslarati.com/latest-spacex-mission-ends-explosion/#comment-3833 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:56:00 +0000 http://www.teslarati.com/?p=29577#comment-3833 In reply to James Rowland.

Wonder if this ends up being similar to the Apollo13 SM LOX tank explosion.

]]> By: James Rowland https://www.teslarati.com/latest-spacex-mission-ends-explosion/#comment-3832 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:26:00 +0000 http://www.teslarati.com/?p=29577#comment-3832 Frame-by-frame playback clearly shows the rupture start in the second stage. Reports from SpaceX later confirmed this; an overpressure event in the liquid oxygen tank,

I don’t get what would suddenly generate excess pressure there. The engine it supplies wasn’t even started. Perhaps there was something in there that shouldn’t have been?

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