Elon Musk’s ninth test of Spacex Starship ended in a disaster after the mission control lost control of the altitude, sending the spiral rocket while burned on the Indian Ocean. Its doors also failed to release fake satellites to orbit
After the two above Spacex Star test flights ended in a burning disasterThe ninth test was, For all appearances, a success For the first 15 Minutes of their launch.
The spacecraft then reached its suborbital height, where it was proposed to release a set of Faux Starlink satellites, but its doors did not open.
Minutes later, the spacecraft lost control of the altitude, leaving it -turning it as the mission control was searched and failed to control it. It was burned and the debris was sent to the Indian Ocean. A few seconds before the 17 -minute mark on the test flight, the ground crews sought to open the doors of Podia Bay, which would have allowed the satellites to be released.
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But about 50 seconds later, the official streaming advertiser from Spacex to X said that the doors had been trapped and that they could not open completely, which means that the release of satellites was not possible.
“We felt the open door was underway. He couldn’t act all the way open, so they would close it,” the advertiser said. “It seems that today we will not be able to open the door.”
The control of the mission was forced to close the doors again, and during the following minutes everything seemed perfectly normal apart from the malfunction of the door, until the spacecraft lost control of the altitude, leaving the rocket turning as the mission control could not control it.
The problem came to a propellant leak, which occurred when the office entered its suborbital trajectory. Spacex said that the trade re -introduced the Earth’s atmosphere at an angle that was not ideal for its heat shield and, therefore, the company hopes that most of the craft will burn, with the remaining pieces that fall to the Indian Ocean.
The company said a large area of the landing area to ensure public safety. In a message to X, Spacex explained what happened.
As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experimented with a quick unpretched rapid dismantling. The teams will continue to review the data and work towards our next flight test, “the company wrote.
But he does not see the test as a failure. “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 a multiplicable life,” Spacex continued.
Elon Musk, who owns Spacex, is however a step closer to the sending of humans to Mars, their ultimate goal. The goal of the ninth star test flight was to show that Starship can fly and return safely and reliable to Earth, and achieved the first of these goals.
Spacex scheduled the non -manned test flight for Tuesday at 19:30 EDT, with takeoff at a Starbase facility near Brownsville, TexasA few minutes after the launch window opened.
Musk and his company were under great pressure, but after the last two Starship test flights ended up in explosions. During the eighth flight of March, several engines unexpectedly closed about 5 1/2 minutes after the launch, which caused the company to lose control of the spacecraft.
The communication with the vehicle was lost several minutes later. Following an investigation, the company led to the incident to a “hardware failure”, with one of the engines that caused the fuel to mix and lights where it should not have, reported ABC News.
The boat did not receive self -destruction instruction, but Spacex said probably automatically, sending remains that fly south Moldy and parts of the Atlantic, which lead to a land stop at nearby airports. The photos and videos of the incident show that the rocket sent waste about the sky.
A similar failure occurred in January. In this test, the seventh of the company, stronger vibrations than expected, caused a leak and an explosion of powers.
The upper stage of both the test and the eighth was lost, but the reinforcement of the first stage successfully returned to the launch site and was trapped with giant robotics that joined the launch tower.
Significant modifications were made to the upper stage based on what Spacex said he learned from previous test flights they exploited. They worked: The spacecraft reached orbital height before other problems occurred.