---
title: "Elon Musk Reveals Why SpaceX Launch Failed"
description: "New details from a phone call today with Elon Musk concerning the recent launch failure: 1.  The only detected issue with the launch failure was the snapping of a strut that keeps the Helium tank in place. 2. The strut was not made in-house; it's from a supplier that the company will not disclose the name of...."
date: "2015-07-20"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Nia Brown"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nia_brown"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-reveals-why-spacex-launch-failed"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Elon Musk Reveals Why SpaceX Launch Failed

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/launchfailure.jpg>)
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New details from a phone call today with Elon Musk concerning the recent launch [failure](<http://www.nasa.gov/feature/video-nasa-spacex-faa-discuss-launch-failure>):

1. The [only](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623209958943928321>) detected issue with the launch failure was the [snapping](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623208983218655232>) of a strut that keeps the Helium tank in place.

2. The [strut](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623212686030020613>) was not made in-house; it's from a supplier that the company will not disclose the name of.

3. Better [software](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623208003643277313>) could have prevented the failure. The next Dragon flight doesn't have a date yet; the [next launch](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623210598029897728>) is pending further investigation.

The failure will [not](<https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/623212209276092416>) delay the commercial crew [program](<https://futurism.com/cuts-to-program-budget-could-keep-nasa-dependent-on-russian-space-agency-transports>) timeline.