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however, the company was optimistic and displayed the message on live screens: “Awesome test. Congratulations to the Starship team! “
“Mars, let’s go!” Elonas Muskas, founder of SpaceX and head of electric vehicle giant Tesla, posted on Twitter minutes after launch, explaining that the crash was due to excessive landing speed.
A prototype of the SpaceX Mars exploded during a test flight
He pointed out the successful parts of the short journey of the rocket launched in the afternoon: takeoff, repositioning during flight, and the exact landing trajectory before the explosion.
“We have received all the necessary data! Congratulations to the SpaceX team, the businessman wrote on Twitter.
During a test launch on Wednesday, the spacecraft successfully took off in a seemingly straight trajectory, and then two of its engines shut down one after the other. After 4 minutes. and 45 sec. from the start of the flight, the third engine also stopped and the rocket began to land in the intended position.
The engines were restarted a few seconds before landing to slow the ship, but it crashed into the ground at high speed.
Smaller prototypes have already been allowed through a series of previous tests for flights of less than a minute up to a height of several hundred meters.
“Success”
The Starhip flight was delayed several times this week. When it finally began, the experiment was streamed live to SpaceX’s Twitter account.
During the test flight, it was planned to inspect the huge hull of the SN8 (eighth spacecraft) and evaluate the aerodynamic properties of its three engines, even when the spacecraft returns to Earth. Starship, like SpaceX’s innovative Falcon 9 rocket, lands vertically on the ground.
“Success in such a test is not measured by the achievement of specific objectives; more important is the knowledge gained that will provide us with data and increase our chances of success in the future with the rapid development of Starship by SpaceX.” said a statement on the company’s website. an explosion or a crash would not mean that the mission would fail.
The prototype of another, SN9, is almost complete.
The experimental flights are carried out in an almost uninhabited part of southern Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico and near the Mexico-United States border, in a remote location so that any accident during the flight does not cause any physical or material damage.
Musk recently said he plans to move to this huge southern US state from California.
The final model, the Starship, will have 37 engines instead of nine, will also be 120 m high and will be able to carry 100 tons of cargo in orbit around the Earth.
Musk hopes that some of these spacecraft will one day launch to Mars, though they may be beneficial even in the short term, as NASA resumes its long-term mission to the Moon in 2024.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is currently scheduled to pay the undisclosed amount for the opportunity to fly the spacecraft around the Moon in 2023 at the earliest.
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