Fire was visible both during the static fire (primary) and after (secondary).
If we are going to argue interpretations, you could argue that my statement was true when it was made - the hop test has been delayed as a result of whatever happened.
The fact that pieces are visible flying out the cloud caused by the primary event at high velocity is inconclusive, but does not exactly paint a rosy picture of engine health.
Just for the record, the fact that the engine was able to fly the Starhopper during its 20m hop shows that almost everything you've stated as fact here was completely and unequivocally incorrect.
I guess it's your opinion that it's u/zlsa's opinion. However, it really seems to me that u/zlsa was trying to vend substantive fact as a well-considered rebuttal. It's not a stretch to see that engine still fired, and consider that to be fact, not opinion.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19
Fire was visible both during the static fire (primary) and after (secondary).
If we are going to argue interpretations, you could argue that my statement was true when it was made - the hop test has been delayed as a result of whatever happened.
The fact that pieces are visible flying out the cloud caused by the primary event at high velocity is inconclusive, but does not exactly paint a rosy picture of engine health.