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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A Man Called Charolais" data-source="post: 63690">Apparently the failure of the booster phase was due to fuel wash - essentially there was an airlock in the pipes feeding some of the engines as it swung around which meant they didn't restart.  When the methane runs through as a gas it causes damage to the engine which then may have caused others to fail as the engines disintegrated.  The explosion may have been a consequence of the fuel running back up fractured tubing to the centre of the first stage causing the explosion - so not a flight termination event (looked like one to me) as it was still was within the launch field of operation so unlikely to have been detonated.They don't know about the Starship vehicle as it was too far from view.  The launch pad appears to be fine.  Starship lost heat shield tiles on the way up.  Still a win![MEDIA=youtube]hF2C7xE9Mj4[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]PmiI_up0G2Y[/MEDIA] </blockquote>

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