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A prototype of SpaceX’s future giant rocket, which the company plans to target for missions to Mars, crashed and exploded during a test launch off the coast of the state of Texas (south) on Wednesday (9).
SpaceX, however, was optimistic about the test and a live broadcast of the launch put the following message on the screen: “AMAZING TEST. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM! ”.
“Mars, here we go!” Celebrated Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, on his Twitter account minutes after the test, explaining that speeding on landing was responsible for the accident.
Musk cited the successful parts of the rocket’s short haul, dubbed Starship 8, in Wednesday’s test: takeoff, change of direction during flight, and a precise landing path (before the final explosion).
“We have all the data we need! Congratulations to the SpaceX team ”, he emphasized.
In Wednesday’s launch test, the spacecraft took off and climbed correctly in a seemingly straight line, before the sequential shutdown of two engines. After 4 minutes and 45 seconds of flight, a third engine stopped and the rocket began its descent in the programmed position.
The engines restarted seconds before landing in an effort to slow the ship, but even so, he couldn’t keep it from hitting Earth hard.
Smaller prototypes have been launched several hundred meters into the air for less than a minute as part of a series of tests aimed at developing the company’s next generation of rockets.
After several failed attempts this week, the flight was streamed live on @ SpaceX’s Twitter account.
The flight was planned to test the enormous metal body of the SN8 (Starship number 8) and its three engines, as well as to evaluate its aerodynamics during take-off and during the return to Earth for the landing, which will be carried out vertically, in the same line that is capable. to make the Falcon 9 rocket, pioneer of SpaceX.
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