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SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
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[–] threelonmusketeers 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is the second upper stage issue this year. I wonder if they're encountering quality issues as they ramp up the production rate of upper stages, or whether they're simply discovering new (rarer) failure modes as they increase their launch cadence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

More likely it's a bit of both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it feels like they're hitting engineering and/or process corner cases. We also might just be emotionally drawing connections between totally unrelated things when there isn't any actual thread to pull on here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Could also be due to engineers switching from F9 to SS/SH.