Looks like something near the header tank started ripping apart along the downcomer. O2 was nearly full, just a little bit of methane. Since pure oxygen tends to make almost anything burn if there's a flame, that probably burned down quite a lot of stuff around the pieces of Ship 36.
We won't know for sure until sunrise, but it seems like a fair bit of the infrastructure surrounding the test stand at Massey's may have gotten torched by the fireball.
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waka@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
Ouch!
Looks like something near the header tank started ripping apart along the downcomer. O2 was nearly full, just a little bit of methane. Since pure oxygen tends to make almost anything burn if there's a flame, that probably burned down quite a lot of stuff around the pieces of Ship 36.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
clothes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The static fire (at Massey's) hadn't actually started. Unclear how the ground systems are doing. At least it's a pretty night explosion?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
We won't know for sure until sunrise, but it seems like a fair bit of the infrastructure surrounding the test stand at Massey's may have gotten torched by the fireball.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
don't move that fast dudes
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Nbd just rebrand it as a dynamic fire test ezpz