Blown SpaceX Engine May Have Been Best of Bad Things

One of the nine Merlin engines of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket suffered what the company called "an anomaly" after the vessel's launch on Sunday. The "anomaly" looks a lot like one of the rocket's nine engines failing in mid-launch, as can be seen in the video below Initial data suggest that Engine 1 lost pressure suddenly and an engine shutdown command was issued. Although the video shows debris being flung out, SpaceX contends that the engine didn't explode, and what the video shows is the rupture of the fairing that protects the engine from aerodynamic loads.

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