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Old 2nd September 2016 | 15:34
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Scuffers
 
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the big explosion was the satellite hitting the ground and it's ~2 tonnes of hypergolic fuel exploding.

the initial flash-fire looks like it's from outside the second stage where the LOX umbilical is connected.

one can only speculate that either there was a failure in the umbilical/coupling or some contaminate came into contact with the O2 venting, a lot of things get very incendiary in a pure O2 environment.
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