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So kinda what i thought... ---------- Post added at 08:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:17 PM ---------- Funny...you would think they would stand up for their engineering mistake....but now its 'blame the vendor'....while not many custom parts are made at spacex, apart from some...

On a side note, thats the one thing about speculating which is tough. To use an analogy - many incidents are a result of pilot error. Sometimes rocket incidents are a result of operator/technician/engineer error, especially if they are pretty much single use products - but going down that road...

I saw some other forums are placing the blame towards the COPV helium bottles. COPV being composite overwrap pressure vessels. Ill give a brief description of this - usually pressure vessels are metallic and ductile, however composites give a great strength to weight ratio but are not ductile...

I keepp thinking. If it happened past max q, maybe its likely a fatigue issue or manufacturing defect in.the upper lox portion. Any structural breakaway is going take a piece of the tank wall with it as everything is attached to the wall. It was prob more sudden as you migh think if gasses were...

Second stage is 2/3 oxi. on top and 1/3 fuel on bottom. Separated by one dome. As mentioned in my previous post there are radial and circumferential baffles to prevent sloshing. the dome separating fuel from the oxidizer has insulation on it make sure only the smallest amount of fuel freezes -...

If we can speculate. The second stage isnt really that complicated internally, some bottles and circumferential and radial baffles to prevent sloshing. I dont think all the hardware is instrumented. You would expect most of the things that would blow the second stage would occur after second...