Interesting. I’m not sure give many raptors are supposed to relight on the boostback, but it looks like one of the gimbal raptors and several of the inner ring failed to relight for boostback. That would explain the trajectory deviation and FTS activation. Nice to see the improved FTS did its job anyway!
Yeah. As much as I love every little bit of information we can get from inside SpaceX, it kinda feels weird coming from Elon now. Like can we even trust what he’s saying anymore? I mean I hope it’s just a trivial purging of LOX that was at fault, and that’s an easy fix, but is that the whole story? What about the booster?