The SpaceX team said it will take some time for them to understand exactly what happened.
The SpaceX team says it has lost data as the Ship made its way back down to earth. It means no controlled splashdown will be happening today. On its live stream, SpaceX says it's 'incredible to see how far we got this time around'. This is no surprise at all.
Because the rocket is travelling so fast when it re-enters the atmosphere it is pushing up against the air and the air can't get out of the way fast enough - like when you pump up the tyre on a bicycle - it gets very, very hot, and of course in this energy environment we're talking maybe 1,000C, 2,000C. That is more than hot enough to melt the steel from which this rocket is made. The heat also causes plasma to form around the rocket and block the signal from it.
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