SpaceX launched its starchy rocket for the ninth time tonight, and for the first time since the sixth flight in November, the second phase of this great launch reached the place. But then matters were upset when the upper phase was out of control and the environment was burned to re -enter.
This sequel Space X was not expected to launch the last two Test flights in January and March. The two began when the second phase of the starch exploded while climbing its place, causing the shining debris trail that re -entered the environment over the Caribbean and forced dozens of airline flights or delays.
Tuesday with SpaceX’s Star Base Facility in Texas’s Boka Chika Tuesday ended at 6:36 pm, after two short holds to remove ground equipment. A 33 -foot -tall rocket booster 33 methane fuel raptor engine. The first phase used in the January launch. This bay is over the “hot stage” cut over of the Gulf of Mexico and the starch, where the second phase engines are connected to the first phase.
The company did not try to catch the booster with its launch tower’s “Chop Sticks” arms so that it could test the landing with the engine. The booster could not escape this test, rather than before it could burn and get soft in the water, it exploded before.
The second phase of the starchy appeared to be very well performing, with six of its reaters put it in a planned substitute tracker.
Space X -launch observers Dan Hoot breathed on the company’s live stream, “Ship Engine Kit off, three very beautiful words in the English language.” But since then, things have gone along with it.
Things look hopeful at this place of mission. (Credit: Rob Pagoro/Space X)
SpaceX failed to complete the next test in this mission after failing to open the pay -door door properly, which deployed artificial star link satellite. Hot Mandatory Space arrived for Sky -Fi reference: “The hall didn’t tell me, I am sorry Dan, I can’t do it.”
Space X projects for its broadband satellite bridge include being able to launch at least 50 upgraded star links in a starch flight. In 2023, Elon Musk suggested that the first such launch could be in 2024. The purpose of upgrading Tuesday’s flight a little closer to reality was to move forward.
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After a break in the video coverage, when the starchy was in the dark on the ground, the river revealed that the upper stage of the starchy had begun to walk out of control. Hot reports, “We have made a leakage in some fuel tanks systems inside the starch.” At this point, we have lost control of our behavior with the stars. “
It eliminated the remaining testing for the mission and ensured fireworks for the starch. The video -related video by the star link showed the car with a tampered plasma in a brightly colored plasma, one of its wings is separated from this heat. The telemetry stopped with what was left of the starchy about 37 37 miles from the Indian Ocean.
‘Last flight great improvement’
Mask hoped to fly in a post on Tuesday evening: “Starship made a place in the scheduled ship engine cut off, such a great improvement in the previous flight!” The CEO also confirmed the HUOT report on the tank leak. “The leakage during the coast and re -entry phase reduced the pressure of the central tank,” Mask added. “Great data for review.”
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This footage could not be easily seen in NASA, as the space agency is also counting on the rocket. In 2021, NASA signed a $ 2.89 billion contract with Space X in 2021 to prepare a version of the upper phase of the starchy, which was developed as a staff lunar for its artema to return to the moon. Two years later, the space agency awarded Blue Origin in 2023 with a $ 3.4 billion contract to create a second lunar landler to fly on the firm’s new Glenn rocket.
President Trump’s nominee NASA, the head of the billionaire payments executive and private astronauts, Ishaqman, published the screen of one of the last moments of the starch. He tweeted, “It is very incredible to get such footage from the extreme environment of the rental. Appreciate transparency – and we have a test program’s heights and designs to the bottom.”
Isaac Man, who has left space twice in the Dragon of the Space X staff in missions, has bankrupt himself, expressed confidence in the future of the US private space industry, which has now gone beyond Space X.
He wrote, “Some people have focused on the shortcomings, but behind the starchy efforts – and other programs, such as New Glenn, Neutron, Wilkin, Terren, Stoke, etc. – is taking the form of a widespread space economy: tens of thousands of jobs, private investment, billions of people in private investment. “When these abilities come, they will offer a new era of research and discovery.
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