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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by dsfyu404ed on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:36AM (#35640708)
I kinda wish they'd have let it keep going in order to get the telemetry.

The altitude and velocity when things went sideways were in MRBM territory, not ICBM territory so the only thing they would have hit would have been the Atlantic ocean.

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Re:SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas by sigstoat on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:44AM (#35641845)
they let it go well past the point it was clear to lay observers that it was out of control. i expect they got all the uncontrolled-descent telemetry they really had a use for.
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