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  • SpaceX Loses Rocket, $200 Million Satellite in Test Fire Explosion

    From vice.com

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with its $200 million Israeli telecommunications satellite payload, exploded Thursday during a static fire test at the company’s launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of a launch planned for Saturday. NASA and several witnesses of the blast have been posting images and videos of huge plumes of smoke billowing from the area. Several people have said that buildings shook miles away, and smoke from the explosions were visible on weather radars. I hope everyone is OK at #SpaceX. — Ian Dawson (@PointyEndUp) September 1, 2016 No injuries have been reported at this time. SpaceX ... (full story)

This was an expensive firework but the only way through life is trial and error. Never give up.
I'm hoping it was a problem with the ground equipment and not the actual rocket. If the rocket design is flawed then this will cause huge delays. But either way, the pad is severely damaged and they won't be able to launch for a while.
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thankfully Elon Musk is clever enough not to put humans on board.

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thankfully Elon Musk is clever enough not to put humans on board.

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Eventually he will. Although unlike the shuttle, SpaceX will have an abort functionality in the event that something goes wrong with the launch vehicle.
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  • Posted: Sep 1, 2016 11:56am
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