No, after talking to NASA people, this is just incompetence.

How on earth could they skip streaming the final 10 seconds countdown? That's beyond incompetence.

queue the new moon hoax theory

Nobody important enough was in charge of the presentation with full context.

This, of course, is a bad sign about the reliability of the mission. Folks have been raising serious safety red flags.

If the video of the launch goes off that poorly it says things about how in a row their ducks are.

or, yknow, focusing on astronaut safety was more important than taking care of how things look on tv

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