Starship of SpaceX, the company of the tycoon Elon Musk, it took off this Thursday successfully from its base on the coast of Texas, USA.
Yes, OK it exploded a few minutes later over the Gulf of Mexico, unable to complete the planned hour-and-a-half flight mission, the company deemed it a success.
The spacecraft did not reach orbit, but it was not a fatal flaw.
The goal of this mission “the largest and most powerful rocket ever built” was to do a first test flightbefore carrying people and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon and Mars.
He super rocketformed by a ship (spaceship) it’s a thruster (super heavy rocket) fully integrated, was able to take off this time after the attempt failed on Mondaywhen the billionaire’s company technicians gave up when they found that a pressurization valve was frozen.
The 62 minute launch window opened at 8:28am Texas time (1:28pm GMT) and this time the spaceship was able to take off safely into space. Until it exploded shortly after.
SpaceX messages posted on Twitter after the launch, in which he said so “Starship underwent rapid unscheduled dismantling before stage separation”.
Additionally, the company emphasized that the teams will continue to review the data and work toward the “next flight test”.
For his part, Elon Musk he congratulated the team and admitted that he learned a lot for future releases.
The head of NASA congratulated SpaceX
Bill Nelson, head of NASA, congratulated SpaceX for the essay.
On his Twitter account he posted: “Congratulations to SpaceX on the first integrated flight test of the spaceship! Every great achievement throughout history has required some calculated level of risk, because with great risk comes great reward. We look forward to everything SpaceX learns, at the next test flight and beyond.”
Spaceship: How is the most powerful rocket ever built
The height of the spaceship is 120 meters (394 ft), diameter is 9 meters (29.5 ft).
He super rocket it is designed to carry people to Earth orbit, to the Moon and Mars.
In detail, it is a completely reusable transport system designed to transport both the crew – up to 100 people – and the cargo into Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon and travel to Mars and beyondpoints SpaceX on your website.
He spaceship it is stainless steel, has 33 main engines and 16.7 million pounds of thrust. Given her strength, Starship could carry up to 250 tons and welcome 100 people Traveling to Mars.
The team of SpaceX performed multiple suborbital flight tests of the starship’s upper stage, which helped validate the vehicle’s design.
Tests have shown that Starship can fly through the subsonic entry phase before restarting the engines and transitioning into a vertical configuration for landing.
In addition to the trial of the upper stage of spaceshipthe team conducted extensive tests of the Super Heavy rocket, including firing the largest number of engines simultaneously in history.
The team of spaceship he also built the world’s tallest rocket capture and launch tower, nearly 146 meters (nearly 500 feet) tall.
Source: Clarin
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