SpaceX billionaire: 'Falcon 9 missiles don't explode'

Elon Musk, SpaceX's chairman, said that the number that happened with the Falcon 9 rocket at the Air Base Station in Canaveral, Florida, USA was a quick fire, not an explosion.

According to Gizmodo, Elon Musk spoke about the crash of the Falcon 9 missile in a message on Twitter on September 2. The important difference between a fire that burns fast and an explosion is the rate of fire.

SpaceX rocket caught fire on the launch pad in Florida on September 1.(Photo: Youtube).

Based on the explosion at the scene of the incident, the sound emitted is very different from an explosion, Professor Daniel M. Nosenchuck at Princeton University's Department of Aerospace Engineering, said later. when watching video about SpaceX missile incident.

A rapid fire causes a burning wave below the sound speed accompanied by a typical "whoosh" sound while the steam wave from the explosion is faster than the speed of sound and is associated with a tremendous explosion. Besides, the strong pressure created by an explosion is almost instantaneous and creates more damage than the fire, according to Professor Nosenchuck.

Elon Musk was convinced that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft's escape chamber was strong enough to survive in the same fast-burning fire. SpaceX used to test the safety of this escape chamber in advance to prepare for the mission to send people to Mars in the future. In case the spacecraft starts to fail, the entire escape compartment will fly out just like a fighter pilot's seat.

Complete destruction of Falcon 9 missiles.

SpaceX rocket suddenly exploded just before the launch time