The future giant SpaceX rocket starship – which the company hopes will go on its way to a Mars mission – crashed in a fiery explosion during a test launch off the coast of Texas on Wednesday.
But the company line was very excited because the live stream of the launch displays the on-screen message “Awesome test. KRGRATES STARSHIP TEAM!”
“Mars, let’s get here !!” Tesla’s Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX Tweeted just minutes after the flight, Explaining that too fast landing speed was to blame for the crash.
He narrated the successful parts of the rocket’s short late afternoon voyage: take-, f, change of position in flight and its (before explosion) precise landing route.
“We got all the data we needed! Congratulations to the SpaceX team,” He tweeted.
Wednesday’s test began and before one and then its second engine came out, it was properly chased in a straight long straight line. After a flight of 4 minutes and 45 seconds, its third engine went out and the rocket started landing at its expected position.
The engine was restarted a few seconds before landing in an attempt to slow down the ship, but it crashed hard on the ground.
Smaller prototypes have flown several hundred yards (meters) from the company for less than a minute as part of tests aimed at developing the next pellet of rockets at celestial speed.
‘Success’
After several unsuccessful attempts this week, Flight @ SpaceX went livestream on the Twitter account.
The test was planned to test the huge metal body of the SN8 (Starship No. 8) and its three engines for its aerodynamics – in the same vein as SpaceX’s leading Falcon 9 rocket, while returning to Earth in this spacecraft.
“With testing like this, success is not measured by meeting specific objectives, but how much we can learn, which will inform and improve the likelihood of future success, as SpaceX will accelerate the growth of the starship,” the company’s website said. Indicating that an explosion or crash will not be a failed mission.
Construction on the next prototype, the SN9, is almost complete.
Experimental flights are taking place in the almost deserted part of South Texas on the Gulf of Mexico near the US-Mexican border – the space is so empty that no flight is likely to cause physical or property damage due to a malfunction.
Kasturi recently announced that he plans to move from California to the vast South American state.
Any future completed Starship rocket will be equipped with an eng 37 engine instead of nine, and will measure an altitude of 150 meters (0,000 feet) and be able to carry 100 tons of cargo in Earth orbit.
Kasturi hopes that one day many of these spacecraft will be able to launch on Mars one day, although they may prove useful in the short term, as NASA’s vision will re-establish a steady presence on the moon in 2024.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Mezawa is currently due to pay an undisclosed amount to take a starship to spin around the moon as early as 2023.
ન્સી Agency France-Press
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