July 21, 2015

Yesterday, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced the preliminary results ove the investigation on the mishap to the Falcon 9 rocket which led to its destruction just over two minutes after its June 28, 2015 launch. The culprit appears to be a component of the hardware rocket, one of the support struts of the rocket’s second stage’s liquid oxygen tank that handled a pressure much lower than that it was certified for.