Musk Confirms That Something May Have Hit The Rocket

>facebook disrupting propaganda
that's not how it works, kiddo

>Conspiratards could be right for once.
ahahahaha. Are you sure Musk didn't simply got tired of his rockets turning into fireworks and he resorted to shift blame so his budget won't get cut?

There have only been two failures, both very suspicious.

Individual strut testing is not standard in aerospace. Nobody who puts in a strut that's three times as strong as it needs to be, from a reputable aerospace provider, checks each one to make sure that one in a thousand isn't only a quarter as strong as it's supposed to be. Anyone who got passed bad struts by their supplier could be expected to suffer a catastrophic failure eventually.

SpaceX's post-incident policy of individual strut testing is not normal quality control, it's an anti-sabotage measure.

This new failure is just as bizarre and suspicious. This was a routine tanking procedure, which SpaceX has done hundreds of times (they do this repeatedly with each rocket during qualification and testing). The only special thing about this time is that there was a valuable payload on top.

>the reason for the destruction is far from technical

Why does defenseindustrydaily.com and others call Amos-6 a 'dual-use' satellite? The term usually points to technology that can be weaponized in some way or another. "Spacecom has already sold capacity on the satellite, including a $20 million lifetime contract from the Israeli government, who will receive a beam in an agreed-upon frequency band.."

Could you secretly blow up a rocket with a ultraviolet, infrared, or microwave laser? Just how detectable or how much forensic evidence would such a thing leave behind? Also what's it's range?

youtube.com/watch?v=BPv0VZcvm4Q

Wanna place bets on whether he's right on the cause?

Oh my god, stop spamming links to t00t's shit. He blathers on for 20 minutes of shitflinging and hides a one-liner wild guess somewhere in the middle, so if you blink, you'll miss it.

He doesn't even guess about the ignition source, he doesn't talk about the known facts of the Falcon 9's internal structure, he just supposes that it had something to do with kerosene freezing and that this somehow breaks a pipe full of liquid oxygen, allowing the two to come in contact.

Now, lox and RP-1 are not any more soluble in each other than oil and water. RP-1 is basically non-volatile, so they won't form a gaseous mixture either. And RP-1 is fairly difficult to ignite (the engine start-up involves TEA/TEB, a very hot-burning fuel which bursts into flame on contact with oxygen, as starter fluid). These are some of the reasons the lox/RP-1 combination is popular (relating to kerosene's use as a jet fuel, where the difficulty of ignition is also a key selling point for safety), and some of the reasons lox/methane hasn't yet been tried in an orbital launch vehicle (lox/methane is miscible, a mixture of the two can be triggered to detonate by things like exposure to light, they're liquid at the same temperatures, and both boil at low temperatutes).

Even if the lox and RP-1 got exposed to each other because the barrier between the two tanks broke down somehow, the explosion needs a lot of explaining. That's the kind of thing you'd expect to be noticed, and then they'd just stop everything, open the vents, and let the lox boil off. This is another benefit of the lox/RP-1 combination: the liquid oxygen will boil off fairly quickly if you just leave it alone.

/x/ here

Get fucked, nerds.

The manner of the rocket exploded makes sense if you consider it was caused by a leaser. It wasn't even an explosion, it was a really quick burn. Like something cut a hole in the fuel tank (laser) and then ignited the fuel as it was escaping the fuel tank. (again, laser)

It's a huge stationary targets sitting in a field with nothing around it for miles. It's the perfect target for this kind of attack.

Were there any Samsung Galaxy Note 7's in that thing?

Powerful lasers are not something that you can just transport in a van or w/e
And you lose power through the atmosphere fast...

And a laser would need to be pointing at the target for minimum several seconds before its heated up enough to burn through & ignore shit. This would be visible.

ignite*

So anyways, highly doubtful it was any sort of laser attack.

>from a reputable aerospace provider
That's the thing though, aren't they all about cost reduction?

They didn't go out and find some dodgy no-name struts, if that's what you're implying.

SpaceX cuts costs by vertically integrating anything they think is overpriced (in other words, making it themselves, starting from whatever stage is not overpriced), not by throwing a rocket together from factory seconds and old engines found in a barn.

while companies are legally bound to make money, engineers are legally bound to make shit work.

>le free market
>can't even make rockets that don't explode

here it is boys

kek. you were right for once /x/

You could just shoot it with a rifle...

paranormal sabotage

if you randomly blurt out sounds, every once in a while you are likely to articulate an actual word of some actual human language.

that doesnt, however, make you an intelligent conversationalist

So something exploded

>And a laser would need to be pointing at the target for minimum several seconds before its heated up enough to burn through & ignore shit. This would be visible.
What would be visible? The laser itself? Because it could just be in the infrared range and therefore invisible.