The largest rocket in the world: Ilon Mask Company revealed the causes of Starship explosion (video)

To spread: Ilona Mask SpaceX has published the results of an investigation into an explosion of the upper stage of the Starship missile, known as SHIP during the eighth test flight in March this year. It is known that the ninth test flight of the largest rocket in the world will take place on May 27. Space writes about it. The Starship rocket, 123 meters high, consists of a lower degree or a Super Heavy and upper degree accelerator, which is essentially a spacecraft.

Today it is the largest and most powerful rocket in the world. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The eighth test flight of Starship took place on March 6, when the rocket was launched from SpaceX's spaceport in the south of Texas. At that time, as during the seventh test flight, the Super Heavy degree successfully turned back, where it was caught by special starting tower manipulators.

But during two of these flights, the upper degree of Ship exploded over the Atlantic Ocean and its fragments fell into the water. If during the seventh flight, a fuel leak occurred and a fire at the top of the second degree of Starship occurred, then during the eighth flight, the fire occurred at the bottom, which houses 6 powerful Raptor engines. The Starship rocket launcher plan assumed that SHIP would outstand four starlink satellites about 17.

5 minutes after the start, and then in about 50 minutes, a controlled drive in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia. According to SpaceX's statement, a fuel fire occurred near one of the engines, which led to its shutdown. Then other engines failed, so the upper degree of Starship went out of control. After that, the SHIP was automatic self -destruction. It was also known that during Super Heavy landing, only 11 of the 13 accelerator engines operated.

Ilona Maska engineers took into account all the problems identified and, according to the application, amended the design of two degrees of Starship missile, so that the ninth test flight planned for May 27 could be completely successful. The US Civil Aviation Directorate has allowed a new launch of the most powerful rocket in the world. We remind that the Starship rocket is intended not only for the delivery of goods and astronauts to the Earth orbit, but also for a month, as well as Mars.

One version of Ships will be used as a planting module when planting NASA astronauts per month in 2027. According to Focus, there were once nine planets in the solar system before the scientists reduced the planetary status of Pluto in 2006. But it seems that the ninth planet is still destined, now astronomers believe that it is far beyond Neptune.