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Old May 1st 19, 01:56 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule destroyed in abort motor ground test

JF Mezei wrote on Tue, 30 Apr 2019
15:33:58 -0400:

On 2019-04-30 14:05, Jeff Findley wrote:

You're going to get little to no actual useful information from a cell
phone video. It's way too low frame rate and the way they respond to
rapid changes in light pretty much means you can't trust the few frames
you have.


That video shows no exhaust from super dracos for a meaningful time
prior to even.


But so what? You have no idea how long the thing was just sitting
there quietly doing nothing. There was no exhaust from the
SuperDracos since the last time they were lit, after all.


And it shows a pretty big explosion with lost of debris flying.

It pretty much confirms that the Dragon 2 is a total loss. (something
which SpaceX didn't confirm at least not at the time that vode was
released).


But what does that actually tell you?


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