SpaceX’s visionary founder Elon Musk has said that an 'initial assessment' attributes the cause of last month’s rocket explosion to a faulty strut which likely caused a chain reaction of system failures.
It was a routine mission that quickly ended in disaster.
Three weeks ago, a SpaceX attempt to resupply the International Space Station failed well before reaching its mark.
According to SpaceX’s founder, Elon Musk, the company has more or less reached a verdict on the cause of last month’s crash.
On a conference call with reporters, Musk said his engineers had made an “initial assessment” that attributed the crash to a faulty strut—a piece of steel two feet long and one inch wide—which gave way well below its designed and certified capacity of 10,000 pounds.
During launch, the s
