SpaceX’s Starship prototype has exploded while trying to land after its test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boka Chika, Texas. A live video of Wednesday’s test showed a self-guided rocket landing following a controlled descent before disappearing into a ball of flames.
Despite the disastrous end of the six-and-a-half-minute test, SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk was thrilled. “Mars, we’re coming here!” He tweeted.
The starship rocket destroyed in the crash was a 16-story prototype prototype of a heavy-lift launch vehicle built by Musk’s private space company to carry men and 100 tons of cargo to future missions to the moon and Mars.
The goal was to reach an elevation of 1,000 feet (12,500,000 meters) for the first time from SpaceX’s newly developed Raptor engine. SpaceX did not specify whether the rocket flew so low.
Immediately after the crash, Musk said the rocket’s “fuel header tank pressure was low” during the landing, “because the touchdown velocity was high.” He added that SpaceX had obtained “all the data we needed” from the test and considered the rocket’s ascent phase a success.
SpaceX made its first attempt to launch Starship on Tuesday, but a problem with its Raptor engine forced an automatic abortion just seconds before the liftoff.
The full Starship rocket, coupled with its super-heavy first-stage booster, will stand tall 4 ft (120m) 39cm, is the company’s next pay generation fully reusable launch vehicle to make human space travel more affordable and regular. So is the center of Musk’s ambitions. .
NASA awarded એ 135 million to SpaceX to help develop a starship with rival vehicles from Dynamics space company Blue Origin, a dynamics company owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lidos.
All three companies are preparing for a future agreement to create lunar landers under NASA’s Artemis program, which calls for a series of manned lunar research over the next decade.
SpaceX, located in Hthorn, California, is buying residential properties in the village of Boka Chika, north of the U.S.-Mexico border in southeastern Texas, to make room for its expanded Starship facilities, which Musk envisions as the “gateway to Mars.”
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