It didn't look like a normal rocket 'splosion though.Usually there's Michael Bay 'splosion and Bruce Willis, but this time it was all puffy and white and then disintegrated. Not sure why?
Maybe because of how high it was. Less oxygen the higher you go, I'm just guessing though.
That rocket had no fins, no surprise it went belly up.Pretty basic construction error imo.
One has to wonder whether they would get higher throughput by putting it onto a large drive and jettisoning said drive back to earth
All I hear is excuses.
Following the June anomaly, SpaceX reported that the Dragon cargo vehicle survived the incident and even received telemetry from the craft until it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. If the cargo Dragon had been equipped with the same software as the crewed version, the chutes could have been deployed, and the vehicle and its over 4,000 pounds of cargo would have been recovered. During today’s teleconference, Musk said that all versions of Dragon will be equipped with this software in the future
For the first time in recorded history, a meteorite is reported to have killed a person.If scientists confirm that a meteorite — and not space junk or other debris — led to the man's death, this would be the first scientifically proven meteorite fatality in modern times, NASA said. "It is so rare, there has never been a scientifically confirmed report of someone being killed by a meteorite impact in recorded history,"
The car-size Curiosity rover recently began autonomously choosing some of the targets for its ChemCam instrument, which blasts Martian rocks or soil with a laser and analyzes the composition of the resulting vapor.
