Once again, I urge any reputable #journalist to do a deep #dive into the life of Aileen #Cannon, not just the recent revelation that she accepted "gifts", but all the way back to he life in Colombia. There are #discrepancies. Where did money come from. There is also a discrepancy about her mother's reported asylum from Cuba. How did a 15 yo, a sister & mom get money & VISAs to relocate to the US? Who paid for all her expensive education? How did she buy a house in Michigan AND Florida?
Gulping > 40,000 pounds of methane & liquid oxygen per second, 397-foot-tall, 11-million-pound rocket.
The upper stage continued to climb, nearly at the end of its burn when contact lost 8 mins after liftoff, indicating Starship wasn’t flying as planned. A camera view tracking the Starship booster shows an explosion that suggested the vehicle failed at that time. The rocket's altitude was 91 miles, 148 km.
Starship’s self-destruct system fired destroying it, failing to reach target 150 mile
The engine failure led to > than minute-long tumble, which kicked off just after the rocket’s Starship upper stage & Super Heavy booster failed to separate.
Was the flight’s explosion result of aerodynamic forces shearing the vehicle apart or the FTS?
Flight termination systems are explosives built into key areas of rockets, triggered by hardware failure detected. A safety & licensing requirement if a rocket veers off course.
This after 63 failures noted by FAA on the last launch.
"So, if we can trust the telemetry from Starship’s flight, there was a significant negative g observed on the booster during staging. More force was transmitted to the booster than anticipated during hot staging, this would have generated a lot of propellent slosh that may have been enough to damage the booster and ultimately cause it to fail." $
After the last catastrophe #FAA found 63 #discrepancies! 63 corrective actions that SpaceX was mandated to fix, prevent mishap reoccurrence. These corrective actions include redesigns of vehicle hardware to prevent leaks and fires, redesign of the launch pad to increase its robustness, incorporation of additional reviews in the design process, additional analysis and testing of safety critical systems and components including the Autonomous Flight Safety System & the application of additional change control practices.