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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by pmarreck on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:38AM (#12406133)
One has to wonder why it was thought to be a good idea to keep an expensive payload onboard during a live-fire test

EDIT: Did some research, it seems that those tests (without the payload) already ran successfully, and that this accident happened during the fueling stage at T-3 minutes... that's super unlucky :/

Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by kirrent on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:45PM (#12410466)
This wasn't launch. It was still a live fire test, but as you say, there are previous tests before integration.