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Why did the June 2016 SpaceX launch run out of propellant?
In other words, what caused SpaceX to miscalculate the amount of propellant required to safely land the booster. They had landed successfully on the drone ship in April. So what went wrong here? What ...
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How much fuel remains in a booster such as the one used for Jason-3
Building off of this question, I am curious as to how much (just a simple magnitude of order) propellant remains inside a booster to cause such an explosion? Considering cost, I would expect very ...
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