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SpaceX has released the initial results of its investigation
- Gys 10y ago'...it believes a breach in the helium system in the Falcon 9's liquid oxygen system caused the sudden flare up.'
- 762236 10y agoWhat caused the breach? These types of articles are infuriating.
- verroq 10y agoPlease change the link to this and edit the title. http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates They know that one of the tanks burst, they don't know why.
- mcguire 10y ago"The anomaly on the pad resulted in the loss of the vehicle." I love these standard euphemisms.
- sctb 10y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567446
- obi1kenobi 10y agoOP here -- I originally posted that link as well, and when I tried to repost it due to the update, HN would not allow it and kept redirecting me to the old discussion. If you have a workaround, I'd love to change it to that link and edit the title.
- dang 10y agoWe changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.
- M_Grey 10y agoFrom Spacex: "...Suggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid oxygen tank took place. All plausible causes are being tracked in an extensive fault tree and carefully investigated." A large breach? That's... worrying. They certainly have not "figured out" why it exploded yet, they've just moved another step down the line.
- sunstone 10y agoNice to have a few recovered first stages lying around to cross check hypothetical root causes. They've probably ruled out that the cryogenic helium exploded.