Pretty solid reasoning. Pretty clear that correct attitude of the spacecraft would be a go/no-go for booster separation.
Wonder if people heard the sonic boom on the ground. If it hit MaxQ and went past it then it would be supersonic at that point.
Presumably they have two flight abort systems (one booster, one ship), a separation, even under non-ideal circumstances, could provide test data. The safety issue would be addressed by setting the self destruct to occur post data collection or imminent danger which ever came first :-). Based on the NOTAMs the FAA sent out they seem to have had a pretty long footprint over the Atlantic for things to go wrong.
Hopefully they will give us a deep dive on what happened!
You can see the vapor ghosting off it when they call MaxQ which is a visual confirmation. I assume people could hear it on the ground too unless it's too high?
Wonder if people heard the sonic boom on the ground. If it hit MaxQ and went past it then it would be supersonic at that point.
Presumably they have two flight abort systems (one booster, one ship), a separation, even under non-ideal circumstances, could provide test data. The safety issue would be addressed by setting the self destruct to occur post data collection or imminent danger which ever came first :-). Based on the NOTAMs the FAA sent out they seem to have had a pretty long footprint over the Atlantic for things to go wrong.
Hopefully they will give us a deep dive on what happened!