The Daily Star has a report on the drone.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/542878/spacex-rocket-explosion-elon-musk-falcon-9-attacked
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On Sep 3, 2016, at 3:33 AM, qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Actually here's a better one, if you watch it frame by frame there is a (what
I guess to be a bird) from right to left and the explosion happens just as
the bird is aligned with the nose. If that bird pooped it may have set off
the LOX boil off resulting in the explosion. Or maybe it's a small drone
which drops some fuel oil. into the boil off.
See pictures above posted by myself dated from Thru, 01 EP 2016 14:40:58 -0600
Robert
At 01:50 AM 9/3/2016, you wrote:
Michael Holt wrote on 020916:
Here's another line of thinking, from an engineer - historian, and onewhich I cannot endorse. It's interesting to know that someone is thinking
this way:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=33030
Rockets standing on pads are vulnerable. A .50 long range sniper rifle hit
did cross many minds I take it. Such bullets can be tracked by radar but
alas, then it's too late.
I suppose the range is well guarded though.
jd
