A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle, carrying the NSS-B satellite, experienced an anomaly today during the launch operations. All personnel at the launch site are safe and accounted for.
No, it looked like the rocket propellent burned through nearby metal, and the craft fell, along with some of the rigging, into the ocean below. Then, the increase in stress to the hull may have caused a rupture, but more likely the ignited fuel was compressed back into the lines, and rocket-go-boom.
That is amazing that they wouldn't have calculated for the exhaust temps of the rocket & put in some kind of an exhaust shield/diverter! Any model rocketeer would have done THAT... -_-;
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That's some "anomaly"!
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