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What causes those strange colored flames at the very end?


You mean alongside the whole vehicle ? From the link provided in another comment, it seems that the forces on the whole launcher (that made it loose its payload) put the fuel and oxidizer in contact and they ignited.

If you meant at the exhaust, it is the oxidizer which is red-brown.




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