Originally Posted by
Sam W
Another failure. Major explosion in the engine bay early in reentry, burn through on the flaps, and explosion on landing. Before anyone says it is suppose to explode; why do they have a boat at the landing “site” to tow it to shore?
Could you show us the boat please? This is new information.
I think the 'major explosion' was a CO2 gas bottle. Caused a fair bit of damage but there is enough resilience in the structure for it to still work..
The aft flaps had burn through. The forward flaps looked pristine.
It's 30ft wide, about 150ft long and just soft landed in the Indian Ocean right on target next to a bouy that was able to film it. It then fell over as there was nothing to support it. Still loaded with residual propellant. Of course it was going to blow up.