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Explosion of Starship Flight 7 traced to fires in rocket's 'attic,' SpaceX says


"The most probable root cause for the loss of ship was identified as a harmonic response several times stronger in flight than had been seen during testing, which led to increased stress on hardware in the propulsion system."

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