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Old April 24th 19, 11:45 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

wrote on Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:57:01 -0700
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Hi all

Has anyone seen any official news or information from SpaceX themselves? Their website hasn't yet been updated (last I checked). Not exactly something that you want splashed all over the front pages, but then again they have been amazingly open about previous failures.


SpaceX is going to be quiet until they actually know something. That's
going to take a little time.


On an aside, assuming a total vehicle loss from this "anomaly" how soon will the next test article be available? Does SpaceX have a couple of capsules waiting or was this the only one?


There is at least one capsule in the pipeline, since the first manned
flight was supposed to use new hardware.


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