"One of those struts broke free amid flight," Musk advised correspondents on a phone call to talk about the June 28 impact on what should be a normal freight mission to the Universal Space Station.
"So the helium jug would have shot to the highest point of the tank at rapid," said Musk, taking note of that the discoveries are the preparatory consequences of a weeks-in length examination by the California-based organization.
The mischance brought on NASA to lose $110 million in hardware headed for the space explorers living in circle, a US space office representative told Congress not long ago.
The struts being referred to are every two feet (60 centimeters) in length and an inch (2.5 cm) thick, and were outfitted to SpaceX by an outside supplier.
"We are not going to utilize these specific struts later on," Musk said, adding that the organization arrangements to start exclusively testing every strut in front of future dispatches.
Musk said SpaceX would come back to flight with the Hawk 9 "no sooner than September."
He additionally said the issue is not anticipated that would defer the organization's objective of sending space travelers to space on board its Winged serpent spaceship inside of the following two years.
Musk, the uber-rich person prime supporter of PayPal who additionally heads Tesla Engines, said that SpaceX had a seven-year record of security in flight until the mischance happened.
He conceded that SpaceX may have turn into "a smidgen self-satisfied," and that the impact offered an "imperative lesson" for what's to come.
The blast happened a little more than two minutes after the rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The rocket disappointment was the third in a progression of load debacles in the previous eight months.
In October, US organization Orbital's Antares rocket blasted after dispatch from Virginia, and in April, Russia lost contact with its Advancement load transport not long after liftoff.