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With we had another angle of the booster during engine relight. From the SpaceX feed maybe engines didn't start back up? Hard to tell. Could have been leaving the expected flight area maybe?



There is a brief view as the inner ring of engines relight (note that the 3 core engines don’t shut down). All but one come back online initially but begin shutting down again shortly thereafter. There are some pretty violent events happening near the engines during the time that they are being lost one by one. The more I look at it, the more it looks like an actual RUD. It seems like maybe those violent events around the engines compromised something in the mid section of the rocket, which is where the explosion originates from. Scott Manley speculated that the very fast flip manuever may have caused some issues with continuous fuel delivery into the plumbing which seems quite plausible given the erratic behavior of the engines after they first appear to relight without issue.




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