A pressure vessel fell onto a farm in Central Washington
Grant County Sherriff’s Office wrote in twitter, that “SpaceX recovered a Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel from last week’s Falcon 9 re-entry. It was found on private property in southwest Grant County this week,”
According to Ars Technica, “there was not enough propellant after this launch, to ignite the Merlin engine and complete the burn. So the propellant was vented into space, and the second stage was set to make a more uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere.”
The result was that the rocket stage ended up breaking up in the sky over the Pacific Northwest. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment
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