re: Starship Flight Test #2 | Starship got to Space for 1st Time!!

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the leading theory so far seems to be the sloshing of the fuel inside the booster on its flip may have caused a liquid hammer affect.

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I could believe that

esp. considering the whole reason for hot staging in the 1st place was to try to keep the propellants in 1 spot so they could flow correctly to the engines... the flip might have disturbed that flow

ETA: I'm interested to see why the FTS activated on Starship though

all the call outs seemed to indicate everything was going as planned/hoped... then suddenly it was gone

obviously... by that point on all streams... all you could see of Starship was the light of the 6 engines