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There are pictures of the second stage coming down in one piece and exploding upon hitting the water (at a safe distance away from the capsule and recovery crew

by olex 7y ago

There are pictures of the second stage coming down in one piece and exploding upon hitting the water (at a safe distance away from the capsule and recovery crews). So it certainly doesn't look like the flight termination system was engaged.

bob1029 7y ago
The SpaceX FTS should be fully-automated per this test. It is one criteria that still needs to be certified for the commercial crew program. That entire sequence should have been performed automatically by a computer (throttle back->fire abort rockets->terminate stage 1 booster). I suspect the FTS was appropriately triggered and that the 2nd stage simply survived the initial carnage via happenstance or potentially unintentionally due to changes in the structure regarding the missing front piece.
- JshWright 7y ago
  The webcast hosts explicitly said the FTS wouldn't be triggered.