This was an interesting turn of events. As far as I can tell, there was a leak of some kind (perhaps liquid oxygen?) and it built up as ice and caused the engine to fail.
The video says "catastrophic" and that's not 100% accurate.
The mission still was counted as a success in a way, as the satellites were deployed into a lower orbit, and they will use the thrusters to try and push them into the correct orbit.
But the bigger issue was the rocket itself, which couldn't be disposed of in the "typical way" and is now more space debris.
So there is a mission review ongoing, to see what happened and how to prevent it. And SpaceX can't launch starlink satellites for now.
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