Big experimental thing that’s still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That’s where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren’t failures as in something fucked up, they’re expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.
This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.
Given the delay this is going to cause I wonder if they’re just going to scrap the v2 Starship and just move onto v3 which was supposed to be within a few launches anyway.
Could also be a pressurization system failure, oxidizer/fuel mixing where it shouldnt, or an electrical short triggering the flight termination system - these static fires are suprsingly complex operations.
Big experimental thing that’s still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That’s where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren’t failures as in something fucked up, they’re expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.
This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.
Given the delay this is going to cause I wonder if they’re just going to scrap the v2 Starship and just move onto v3 which was supposed to be within a few launches anyway.
Poor V2 hasn’t been doing to well.
Fuel leak, I suppose. what else can cause explosion before the start?
Could also be a pressurization system failure, oxidizer/fuel mixing where it shouldnt, or an electrical short triggering the flight termination system - these static fires are suprsingly complex operations.
The flight termination system won’t be active during a static fire.