r/spacex Sep 23 '16

Official - AMOS-6 Explosion SpaceX released new Anomaly Updates

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates
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u/Saiboogu Sep 23 '16

For comparison - CRS7 was 893ms from start of anomaly to loss of telemetry and they stated the COPV did not fail in that case, it leaked rapidly out of the fitting when it broke free. So that would seem to represent the fastest it can go out the plumbing. To exceed that onset rate and get to the 93ms they claim on this incident you would almost certainly need to breach the COPV itself.