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    FAA investigating SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket anomaly

    Regardless of previous track record, any failure requires an investigation in order to attempt to determine whether the issue is systemic or not. Maybe a small change in a manufacturing process or personnel is causing an increased failure rate in Merlin engines? All reasonable attempts should be...
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    SpaceX Starship launch under FAA investigation after raining potentially hazardous debris on homes and beaches

    https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1104981.pdf The chart in 3.1 seems to indicate about a 10% mapping of fuel weight to TNT yield. So a 1k ton of rocket fuel would be 100 ton TNT explosion. Not small, but also not 1/21 of Nagasaki, which FYI was 21kT not 16kT...
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    SpaceX fires engines of Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of test flight (video)

    "Wednesday's test was the first static fire for Booster 7 since Nov. 14" Today is Tuesday right?
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