Here's Dan Leone's story at Space News: http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/37498no-upper-stage-explosion-after-falcon-9-v11-launch-spacex-says
SpaceX continues to say it didn't happen. On 10/01/2013 10:17 AM, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Rand Simberg wrote:SpaceX is denying it, claiming that initial tracking data is always a little flaky. And what could cause an explosion? It has no hypergolics on it, AFAIK.Doesn't have to be hypergolics -- any form of stored energy will suffice. Something like an engine hard start is plausible, given that SpaceX has admitted that there was a problem with the restart experiment. There may be hypergolics in the RCS. An overpressurized tank can explode. So can a shorted battery (yes, battery explosions can be quite violent). Henry Spencer henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) (regexpguy@xxxxxxxxx)
