Pre-Firing Cleaning Setup Triggered Merlin Accident
Credit: Falcon 9: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—SpaceX was setting up to clean a next-generation Merlin rocket engine with liquid oxygen (LOX) in advance of a Nov. 4 qualification test when something in the system failed, said board member and company investor Steve Jurvetson, with the Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson venture capital fund...
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