SpaceX

I very much doubt that either the booster stage or the orbiter stage detonated as a result of a failsafe mechanism.

The booster was streaming out fuel after the flip maneuver, likely indicating a rupture from the flip of at least one tank, or in the fuel lines.

Then 1/3 of the engines do not relight, and many basically catastrophically erupt and destroy themselves.

By this point there are fuel leaks everywhere, and within moments the entire thing explodes spectacularly.

If an abort system had been successfully engaged following the engines ripping themselves apart, it should have disengaged the fuel to the engines, turned off fuel pumps and closed off fuel lines... precisely to prevent the massive explosion that occured.

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The orbiter exploded on camera, and SpaceX did not even report they had lost contact with it until minutes later.

They probably did not trigger an abort system minutes after they lost contact with the craft... you know, after it already exploded.

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Whoever wrote this article is just reporting what SpaceX told them and apparently has done no due diligence or investigation, and/or knows nothing about rockets.

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SpaceX will be going bankrupt soon.

Musk already said this would happen last year, in a leaked email to employees, if they didnt make their Starlink launch schedule. I am pretty sure they didnt, and SpaceX was just passed over for a massive government grant.

Which Musk should be fine with, because he is in favor of ending all government subsidies.

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I would not be surprised if Starship 3 either fails to launch, or does not get very far before enough engines fail to fuck up any planned mission.

Musk and SpaceX have been reporting lots of quality control issues producing the new version of the Raptor engines, and they dont have many reliable ones lying around.

A catastrophic failure of at least one raptor engine they are already having huge issues with seems likely