Starship Ilona Mask: The world's largest rocket exploded while flying into space (video)

To spread: Ilona Mask SpaceX conducted a ninth test of a Starship Space Space Missile, consisting of two parts: Super Heavy and Ship Space Excellent. Although the latter was able to reach space, it still exploded, as did the Starship rocket accelerator. But Ilon Musk says that not everything is as bad as it seems and soon new test flights will happen. Space writes about it.

SpaceX has created the largest and most powerful Starship rocket in order for humanity, among other things, to colonize the moon and Mars. The total height of the rocket in the assembled form is 122 meters. The height of the Super Heavy accelerator, which is the first stage of the rocket, is 70 meters and the height of the second degree of Ship is 52 meters. Super Heavy has 33 Raptor engines and spacecraft - 6. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! In total, SpaceX spent 8 test flights before launching Starship again into space. This year, in January and March, two flights took place, but both ended the same. Both stresses of Starships are multiple, so they can be reused.

During the two tests of this year, the Super Heavy accelerator successfully returned after launch and was captured by special starting bar manipulators on Starbase Space Space in the south of Texas. But SHIP was just 10 minutes after the start, both times broke in the air, and did not reach the space. The focus has already written about the causes of these accidents. SpaceX engineers have modernized two starship degrees, hoping to avoid problems during the ninth test flight into space.

But as a result, what probably did not expect: both parts of the Starship rocket exploded and collapsed in parts shortly after launching. The ninth launch into the space of the Starship rocket launched on Wednesday, May 28, at 2:37 Kiev. For the first time, SpaceX used the same Super Heavy accelerator as during the preliminary launch.

But this time, after the lower degree of Super Heavy separated from the upper stage of the Starship missile, the first began to return back behind the other trajectory, as it was planned. Engineers wanted to check the accelerator's ability to consume less fuel while planting. But planting the accelerator, given some technical difficulties, was decided not to do not on the starting tower, but in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

But about 6 minutes after the start of the flight, the Super Heavy accelerator exploded and collapsed into pieces, immediately after starting the engines for landing. At the same time, the second part of the Starship rocket, that is, Ship spacecraft, unlike past flights, was able to reach space. He had to place 8 starlink satellites in orbit. But this did not happen, because the hatch for the release of release loads did not open completely.

And about 30 minutes after the start of the flight, SpaceX's representatives lost control of Ship and began to throw. This is most likely due to fuel leakage. As a result, the upper stage of the Starship rocket exploded and collapsed over the waters of the Indian Ocean. Ilon Musk stated that this test was better than Starship than past, and many valuable data were obtained to help improve the work of the most powerful rocket in the world.

According to Mask, his company SpaceX plans to carry out the next 3 Starship tests in the near future. The break between flights will be 3-4 weeks. We would like to remind you that the successful test of Starship rocket depends to a large extent successful landing of NASA astronauts on the moon for the first time since 1972. According to the plan, in 2027, one of the versions of the Ship spaceship should be delivered to the surface of the moon of astronauts.