After a consecutive explosion SpaceX on Tuesday evening again launched its colossal missile star, but did not achieve its primary targets because the spacecraft lost control and disintegrated. The 403 -foot (123 meters) rocket flew for the ninth demonstration flight from Starbase, the SPACEX starter at the southern tip of Texas. At the beginning of this month, the inhabitants voted for the establishment of the area as an official city.
CEO Elon Musk’s SpaceX planned to deploy a number of fake satellites after Liftoff, but that was canceled when the door was fully opened. Shortly thereafter, the spacecraft began to rotate as it walked through the universe and headed for an uncontrolled landing in the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX later confirmed that the spacecraft had undergone a “rapid unplanned dismantling”, basically tore. “Teams will continue to control data and work on our next flight test,” said online.
This meant the first opportunity of one of Musk’s stars – designed for missions to the Moon and Mars – flew with a re -booster. Unlike previous tests, there were no plans to restore the booster with giant mechanical weapons at the start point. During the flight, contact with the booster was lost and in the fragments hit the Gulf of Mexico, while the spacecraft continued towards the Indian Ocean.
The spacecraft then lost control, apparently due to fuel leakage.
“It doesn’t look great with many of our goals in orbit for today,” said SpaceX commentator Dan Huot. The company hoped to test the heat shield of the spacecraft during the controlled re -entry.
It was expected that the flight would close the “rocket into the Indian Ocean”, thousands of kilometers from its starting point in Starbase, Texas-Krok designed to simulate the conditions of the mission in the real world.
The video showed that the rocket raised from the starting tower to the early evening sky. Many powerful Raptor engines of Super Heavy Booster fired and created a large flame and a lot of smoke and couples.
For the first time, SpaceX used a super heavy booster that had flew before, trying to show that the missile parts could be reused.
As expected, the first part of the rocket, which is 232 feet high (71 meters), separated from the Starship spacecraft a few minutes after the launch and began to fall back on the ground.
But SpaceX lost contact with the booster when he met, and probably hit the ocean instead of landing gently as they planned.
The upper part of the Starship Rocket rocket continued to rise and reached its planned journey just before the Earth’s atmosphere about nine minutes after the start.
During the test, there was a problem where the door -loading door did not open to release a set of false satellites.
He was planned to complete Starship to complete a test flight that would take less than 90 minutes, safely back down and landing in the Indian Ocean.
But about 30 minutes after the start of SpaceX, they said that their flight team lost control of Starship, and the rocket began to turn when it returned to the atmosphere.
“We will not be harmonized because we wanted him to be aligned for re -entry,” SpaceX commentator said during a living current. “Our chances of getting down all the way down all the way are pretty slim.”
His last two test flights – in January and March – were interrupted by short moments after the tow, when the vehicle was thrown into pieces to its ascent, raining over the parts of the Caribbean and disrupted the score of commercial air flights in the region.
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