SpaceX explosion on pad

[Phoenix86]

Why should they be the lead to conducting their own investigation though?
It should be a 3rd party with no axe to grind.

When planes or cars or trains crash, the company that made them is involved, but, they are NOT the lead investigators on what went wrong!

No loss of life occurred and there were no occupants.

Further, just think about the motivation considering the source of the need for external investigators.

1+1=2

 

[tynopik]

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates

The root cause of the breach has not yet been confirmed, but attention has continued to narrow to one of the three composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) inside the LOX tank. Through extensive testing in Texas, SpaceX has shown that it can re-create a COPV failure entirely through helium loading conditions. These conditions are mainly affected by the temperature and pressure of the helium being loaded.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016...ns-on-track-to-return-to-flight-by-years-end/

so . . . you're saying it WASN'T a sniper rifle carried by a drone launched from a competitor's building?

 

[Brovane]

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates



http://arstechnica.com/science/2016...ns-on-track-to-return-to-flight-by-years-end/

so . . . you're saying it WASN'T a sniper rifle carried by a drone launched from a competitor's building?

SpaceX never said it was sabotage. However when you are doing a fault-tree analysis, sabotage is one of the things you have to look at. Apparently Tesla conducted a full scale test at McGregor with a 2nd stage. They had a sharpshooter shot the 2nd stage and basically the test replicated the failure that we did see for AMOS-6.

This is a issue you run into with in-complete data. You can never be sure what the failure was. Some individuals believe that the actual failure for CRS-7 was a COPV tank failure and wasn't a strut failure.