Submission + - Rapid unscheduled disassembly of a Starship rocket (apnews.com)
hambone142 writes: I worked for a major computer company whose power supplies caught on fire. We were instructed to cease saying that and instead say the power supply underwent a "thermal event". Gotta love it. Continuing, an A.P. store about a SpaceX rocket:
It marked the latest in a series of incidents involving Starship rockets. On Jan. 16, one of the massive rockets broke apart in what the company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” sending trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. Two months later, Space X lost contact with another Starship during a March 6 test flight as the spacecraft broke apart, with wreckage seen streaming over Florida."
It marked the latest in a series of incidents involving Starship rockets. On Jan. 16, one of the massive rockets broke apart in what the company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” sending trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. Two months later, Space X lost contact with another Starship during a March 6 test flight as the spacecraft broke apart, with wreckage seen streaming over Florida."
