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by tw04 2023 days ago
I believe it was burning through the copper liner due to fuel starvation (oxygen rich which makes it SUPER hot)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/1600/Merlin1C_Ch...

Seriously getting downvoted? That's what caused the issue.... Elon already tweeted they had low fuel pressure...

1 comments

You may be right but Starship uses Raptor engines, not Merlins.
I'm aware, the picture was to show what the liner looks like (approximately), the engines are of similar design. I apologize if anyone thought that was literally the liner in question.
Ah yeah, lots of confusion re: TEB in other comments. Seems like a lot of people have the Raptor and Merlin mixed up so at least in this context probably have to be explicit.