Re: ““Just a Scratch”: Elon Musk Reacts to Massive Explosion of Starship During Launchpad Test”

On 6/22/2025 9:38 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Almost an hour and a half later, Musk posted regarding a possible
cause, Preliminary data suggests that a nitrogen COPV in the payload
bay failed below its proof pressure. If further investigation confirms
that this is what happened, it is the first time ever for this design.

 Strong oxidizers are scary no matter what.  Cold strong oxidizers have
even more to be scared about.
 The problem here is that this is now a production system and is no longer
experimental... so failures like this are being paid for directly by
the taxpayer.

I think you're a tad confused. Starship is definitely NOT a production
system. Its still very much experimental, with significant changes from
flight to flight, as they iterated towards something that's less
explody.
All the recent RUDs have been with Block 2 models. Some of us wonder
when we'll move on to Block 3, which will incorporate a lot of lessons
from Blocks 1 & 2.
pt