He a large rocket starship companies SpaceX it exploded in the skies over Texas (USA) minutes after a successful takeoff for as yet undetermined reasons, although company engineers indicated they felt the test was a good one, which could be attempted again in a few months.
He The owner of SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk, He immediately reacted on his Twitter to congratulate his teams and encourage them to continue working on the project whose ultimate goal is to have a device that will take people to the Moon and Mars.
“Congratulations to the team on an exciting test launch of Starship. Lots of learning for the next test launch in a few months,” Musk said.
“In a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve the confidence of the Starship as SpaceX strives to make life ‘multiplanetary,'” said the company, which despite the explosion considers what happened in the sky of its positive a base called Starbase located on the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Today’s was SpaceX’s second attempt to test the project a large rocket starshipdesigned to transport people into Earth, Moon and Mars orbit, consisting of a fully integrated ship (Starship) and propellant (Super Heavy Rocket).
Starship had to pull back from takeoff last Monday after technicians discovered a pressurization valve had frozen.
The work will continue
SpaceX pointed out that the equipment engineers “They will continue to review the data and work on our next flight test,” although for now there is no precise information about what happened so that the rocket exploded unplanned.
Although in the first moments of liftoff everything seemed to be going according to plan, the rocket began to spin on its axis and instead of separating, as planned in the first phase of the flight, the ship ended up exploding and without completing the 90-minute journey before landing near Hawaii.
Musk had previously made it clear that the test had a 50-50 chance of failure.
The commentators themselves SpaceXduring the live broadcast they were delighted despite not everything going as planned and the rocket exploding.
Today’s mission was scheduled to take off, pass and land the first stage of the rocket, Super Heavy, in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Starship was supposed to do it in Hawaii.
The ship was supposed to separate, but the Starship and Super Heavy exploded together after spinning out of control for a few seconds before turning into a fireball.
return to the moon
Starship is a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo into Earth orbit, return to the Moon, and travel to Mars.
The giant rocket and ship is 120 meters (394 feet) tall, 9 meters (29.5 feet) in diameter, and can carry 100 to 150 metric tons of cargo, expandable to 250 tons.
SpaceX closes today’s session with a rocket explosion, which its technicians consider a virtual success, passing the critical phase of flight with takeoff and verifying that the new engines are working, at least partially.
The company did not detail the exact technical problems or the exact date of the next takeoff attempt, although Musk himself pointed to months.
The Starship, when fully operational, is designed to carry up to 100 people on long-duration interplanetary flights.
Source: Panama America
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