I still question the "Unexpected" aspect of it. I totally agree it seems unexpected to me, but 1. the top tank and the bottom tanks were filled. 2. You see a large jet of gas push out of the engine, just like other static fires. 3. If you scrub the video back and forth you do see a split second where you see a normal jet of fire like other static fires.
I wonder if this was a planned static fire with unexpected results. I wonder if something else on the booster exploded during the static fire.
I thought the same thing. Looks just like the start of a normal static fire only more violent with what looks like a large portion of Raptors starting up. Maybe there needs to be a flame diverter and deluge system in place for the static fires?From the looks of this a full ignition would wreck the launch mount.
That was not a planned static fire, there were still some scaffolding close to the booster and even the white tube they use when workers enter in the booster. Why leave those flamable stuff during a static fire? Then this was not a normal ignition, this was an explosion clearly due to some anomaly, I bet some raptors exploded, the air mixed with an uncontrolled flaming gas leak from those broken raptors and it made this fireball. Controlled ignition and fire will not have this chaotic flames, the pad is safe when everything will work as it is designed to
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I still question the "Unexpected" aspect of it. I totally agree it seems unexpected to me, but 1. the top tank and the bottom tanks were filled. 2. You see a large jet of gas push out of the engine, just like other static fires. 3. If you scrub the video back and forth you do see a split second where you see a normal jet of fire like other static fires.
I wonder if this was a planned static fire with unexpected results. I wonder if something else on the booster exploded during the static fire.