“We lost contact with the boat,” Dan Huot announced
As in the previous trial in January, the SpaceX company of Polydakmmionaire Masculine She lost today the second floor of her giant spaceship, Starship, but she however managed to recover the first floor with a spectacular maneuver.
“We have lost contact with the boat,” said Dan Huot, a SpaceX manager.
“This had happened the previous time, so we have gained some experience on this subject,” he added with an irony hint, and clarified that the business is working “in close cooperation with the Air Traffic Authorities.”
The US Air Force Regulatory Authority, FAA, announced that, after the test failure, it suspended some take -off and “slowly slowing the aircraft” to avoid a possible collision with debris.
FAA also instructed SpaceX to conduct, as in January, a search for this new episode. In the evening, the company confirmed through X that the spaceship was exploded on its rise.
“Before the rise is completed, an energy event on the rear of Starship brought about the loss of Raptor engines. This brought about loss of behavior control and ultimately loss of communication with Starship. Final contact with Starship took place about 9 minutes and 30 seconds after take -off, “the company said in a statement.
During the previous test flight in mid -January, this missile system had the same fate, causing a rain from burning debris over the Caribbean and minor damage to the Terks and Kaikos islands, which are more than 2,500 kilometers from the site.
A video posted on social media depict debris falling flaming from the sky over the Bahamas. The Archipelago government did not respond immediately to the French agency’s request for comment.
At a height of 123 meters, that is, as much as an apartment building about 40 floors, the Starship missile system, developed by the company for travel to the Moon and Mars, was launched into the sky of Texas without problems shortly after 17:30 (local time, 01:30 today Greece).
A few minutes after the take -off and separation of the two floors, the promotional rocket called Super Heavy began a controlled descent to the launch platform, before being immobilized by mechanical arms installed on the launch tower.
It is a very complicated maneuver that the company managed yesterday for the third time, under the applause and cheers of its teams.
Shortly thereafter, the spaceship appeared to be in spin. The company then announced that it had lost control, he was stressed to the EIA.
Ilon Musk aspires for his company to at some point recover this spaceship named Starship, which is the second floor of the rocket and gives its name to the entire system so that the rocket can be reused as a whole, which would allow the necessary costs.
