I didn't include the followup statement from the SpaceX press release : "Titanium has been used safely over many decades and on many spacecraft from all around the world."
The implication being that there's just no way SpaceX could have suspected this problem because structural titanium use in a spacecraft would inform decisions regarding its use in contact with corrosive propellant.
Obviously, this was written by a PR person, not engineering management, but it plays to an image of SpaceX being a company to handwave past the hard-earned lessons of decades of "Old Aerospace" companies. They should be more careful in releasing these kinds of statements.
The implication being that there's just no way SpaceX could have suspected this problem because structural titanium use in a spacecraft would inform decisions regarding its use in contact with corrosive propellant.
Obviously, this was written by a PR person, not engineering management, but it plays to an image of SpaceX being a company to handwave past the hard-earned lessons of decades of "Old Aerospace" companies. They should be more careful in releasing these kinds of statements.