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SpaceX Dealing With ‘Conflicting’ Data Points From CRS-7 Launch Failure, Musk Says

Pat Host

Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

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SpaceX Dealing With ‘Conflicting’ Data Points From CRS-7 Launch Failure, Musk Says

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 containing the EUTELSAT 115 West B and ABS-3A satellites. Photo: SpaceX.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is dealing with conflicting data points as it continues to investigate its June 28 launch failure, company founder Elon Musk said Tuesday.Musk said the data from the failure has been “quite difficult” to interpret and whatever happened was clearly neither simple nor straight forward. He said SpaceX would have something more definitive to say by the end of the week.Musk repeated his Twitter post from Sunday that there was some kind of “overpressure event” in…

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Budget

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Congress

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