2023-04-21 10:36:45
This Thursday all eyes were on the company’s most powerful reusable rocket in the world Space X, which exploded minutes after takeoff. Despite this, the company says it has been a success because its priority was to test the launch. In fact, as can be seen in the images that accompany this news, they applauded that moment of collapse, although Elon Musk’s face seemed disappointed.
After the rocket explosion, he assured through Twitter that in a few months they will do another release: “Congrats SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months”.
He Super Heavy rocket with the ship Starship of Space X it exploded four minutes after its launch on April 20, in the first attempt to fly the system around Earth. Liftoff was around 13:34 UTC, six minutes later than expected due to a temporary pressurization problem in the rocket from the Space X Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Many Space X employees closely followed this long-awaited launch to applause.
The rocket lost its orientation, until it exploded in midair, after reaching an altitude higher than 30 kilometers. “With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary,” SpaceX said on its Twitter account. They also reported that the Starship itself “underwent a rapid unscheduled disassembly prior to stage separation.”
According to him flight plan Once established, the rocket was scheduled to separate shortly thereafter and return to earth for a controlled splashdown near Starbase. Meanwhile, Starship would reach orbit and cross the globe over the Atlantic, Africa, Indian Ocean, and Pacific to impact north of Hawaii. The flight would have lasted an hour and a half.
As Musk wrote on Twitter, Will we have to wait a few months more to check if the third time is the charm.
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