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649 points chinathrow | 4 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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terramex ◴[16 Jan 25 23:04 UTC] No.42732041[source]▶
Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground):

https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF...

https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800

https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115

Moment of the breakup:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

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dpifke ◴[17 Jan 25 01:58 UTC] No.42733260[source]▶
Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.

Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880060983734858130

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coldtea[dead post] ◴[17 Jan 25 05:06 UTC] No.42734284[source]▶
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1. fsloth ◴[17 Jan 25 05:46 UTC] No.42734453[source]▶
It sounds like he's talking to investors and not to general public.

In my experience in corporate america you communicate efficiency by proclaiming a checklist of things to do - plausible, but not necessarily accurate things - and then let engineers figure it out.

Nobody cares of the original checklist as long as the problem gets resolved. It's weird but it seems very hard to utter statement "I don't have specific answers but we have very capable engineers, I'm sure they will figure it out". It's always better to say (from the top of your head) "To resolve A, we will do X,Y and Z!". Then when A get's resolved, everyone praises the effort. Then when they query what actually was done it's "well we found out in fact what were amiss were I, J K".

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2. the_duke ◴[17 Jan 25 06:51 UTC] No.42734810[source]▶
He's talking to the FAA, because this will trigger an investigation and would usually mean months of no launches.
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3. cmsj ◴[17 Jan 25 12:29 UTC] No.42736833[source]▶
Fortunately (for him) he'll be President on Monday and can then order the FAA to let him do whatever he wants.
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4. __MatrixMan__ ◴[17 Jan 25 15:34 UTC] No.42738630{3}[source]▶
King. Presidents are elected.