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Scott Manley breaks down what he thinks went wrong (engine failure about 15 seconds after lift off)...

 

 

...about 3:40 in this video is his hypothesis. 

 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Failure from yesterday...

 

 

...the fairing didn't open between stages which caused the upper stage to tumble out of control. Incident starting at 3:12

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[Jim K Global Moderator]

China accidentally launches a Tianlong-3 rocket during a static fire test.

Whoopsie

 

 

 

 

[DocM]

I'm hoping that block of buildings was not residential.

[DocM]

Scott Manley's analysis 

 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Unfortunate there isn't any (so far) video of the actual failure ... but the LOX leak up to failure is pretty neat.

[DocM]

The S2 failure was rather non-spectacular. They should be returning to flight in the next week.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) test fire failure.

 

 

...pretty fireworks.

[DocM]

On 21/08/2024 at 21:32, Jim K said:

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) test fire failure.

 

 

...pretty fireworks.

Fire cause: propellant leaking from engines after shutdown, the pad did not have its own water supply and the tanks ran dry. Other suppression was inadequate. 

https://spacenews.com/fire-fed-by-leaking-engines-destroyed-abl-space-systems-rocket/