On: SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing

[trasz]

I wonder what's that tiny thing that seems to have broken off some two seconds before it hit the ground?

[bdamm → trasz]

Indeed, there were two. Two objects broke off from the ship before impact, one just before the first swing of the pendulum and one just after.

[Gh0stRAT → trasz]

Watching it in slow motion, it looks almost like pieces of insulating foil.

[jansan → trasz]

Also, there was an unusually large flame at the end of the liftoff. Maybe that already sealed SN9's fate.

[d1str0 → jansan]

At apogee? Pretty sure that final flame is expected.

[dtolnay → d1str0]

At T+01:11 with 3 engines still lit (https://youtu.be/_zZ7fIkpBgs?t=397). Not the apogee one at T+04:34.

[andygates → dtolnay]

That’s just a bit of wraparound suction flame, no big deal.