An early frame grab at 1:12 shows a jet running vertically down the exterior.
Liquid air in combustion? Funny recent topics here were on liquid air
condensation challenges.
Dave
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On Sep 1, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Doug Jones <djones@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
A downloadable copy of 1:10 to 4:10 is here. If you play it back in VLC, you
can adjust the audio track by -12.2 seconds with tools-track synchronization
to make the audio and video synch up. The explosion starts at 00:02 in this
trimmed clip.
http://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/download?id=d3d3i8j9f5f5c2b1&ext=m4v&v=_BgJEXQkjNQ
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On 9/1/2016 10:24 AM, Nathan Bergey wrote:
Video of RUD posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ
Ouch.
-Nathan
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Nathan Bergey <nathan.bergey@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So far I'm running on the unproven assumption that they hadn't lit yet, andLooks like you are correct. From Elon himself a few minutes ago:
that this happened during propellant transfer. (As always, I reserve the
right to be completely confused.)
"Loss of Falcon vehicle today during propellant fill operation.
Originated around upper stage oxygen tank. Cause still unknown. More
soon."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/771394161756942336
-Nathan