Firefly's rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we've ever seen

“The stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared zone north of Antarctica”<p>As opposed to the part of the Pacific that is south, east, or west of Antarctica.

Guess: Propellant slowly leaking into the interstage from the second-stage engine deflagrated when that engine started, shattering the fragile nozzle extension. (With the amount of white vapor seen in the video, I&#x27;m thinking the second stage would not have survived an actual detonation.)