https://x.com/newenglandastro/status/1938693147262882054?s=61
It seems hard to believe they could make such a mistake. But on the other hand a striking charge of negligence in regards to the COPV tanks was leveled by a SpaceX employee towards SpaceX engineering management:
Felix Schlang of YouTube WAI channel makes shocking claim about cause of the Starship test stand explosion.
byu/RGregoryClark inspace
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Did Elon delete these tweets? I can’t see them.
Not surprising, but I doubt any serious changes will happen.
The video says a source claims they installed the wrong COPV with lower pressure capacity.
“Been around the INDOPACOM and protected some serious firepower and secrets ill take to my grave.
Disrespecting me and Starship was a mistake.”
I’m not sure I’m taking anything this man said seriously.
Bruh if they are skirting safety regulations by straight up fudging the traceability records, then we’re gonna have another OceanGate on our hands
I have immense respect for SpaceX as a developer of experimental and bleeding edge tech, and for the revolution that is F9.
But their philosophies are not just fundamentally incompatible with manned operations, but dangerous in ways that belay a systemic, sloppy recklessness that *will* result in a completely avoidable disaster.
Aerospace is extremely slow, extremely expensive, and extremely regulated because *that’s the only way aerospace is viable at all*.