Inferno on fire. SpaceX showed a return to Earth "eyes" Falcon Heavy rockets (video)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! One of the reasons for SpaceX's success is that the company uses multiple missiles to remove useful goods in orbit. It is much cheaper to recover accelerators than to create them again for each mission. On April 30, the Falcon Heavy rocket launcher started from NASA's spaceport in Florida and launched a Viasat-3 American Satellite and two smaller satellites.

But to start the rocket, engineers used three accelerators that could no longer be restored for reuse. On the other hand, previously restored missiles were used in this mission, so in this sense, Falcon Heavy flight was not completely disposable. Blockers are called a part of the rocket that protects useful loads at the stage of their output through the Earth's atmosphere.

SpaceX has already been engaged in the restoration of the flowers used earlier, but for the first time such a fugitive was used to flight the Falcon Heavy rocket launcher. The presented SpaceX video shows how the rocket degrees, the launch of the second -degree engine and the reset of the fugitive, which was divided into two parts and went back to the ground. The second video from SpaceX shows how the wrapping freely falls through the Earth's atmosphere.

At the same time, according to the company's statement, this fall on the planet was the hottest and fastest of all similar processes. The flow rate of the flower was 15 times higher than the speed of sound. A little later, a parachute was driven in the Atlantic Ocean. But this drive happened away from the launch site. SpaceX reported that this landing on the ground occurred further than ever landed other fugitive launchers of carriers of the American company.

The fugitive had to get out of the water at a distance of 1930 km from Florida, that is, almost a third of the distance between the US and Africa. So far, Falcon Heavy is the only overweight rocket launcher in SpaceX, but if everything goes according to the plan, it will be replaced by a much more powerful Starship missile. By the way, this megaret, 120 meters high, in April this year could not fly during the test flight, and then rose into the air in three days.

But in almost 4 minutes at an altitude, it exploded almost 40 km, that is, the mission was not fully fulfilled. On the one hand, according to SpaceX, a rocket with a spaceship successfully started that it was already an achievement, but on the other hand, the spacecraft did not fly further into space. According to Focus, SpaceX owner Ilon Musk reported that a new Starship rocket has to launch in 1. 5-2 months, which is hoped to be more successful in the American company.

This overweight rocket, consisting of a rocket carrier and spacecraft, will have to deliver cargoes and astronauts for a month and then to Mars. Of course, if it passes at least the first test successfully. As for the moon's flights, NASA is actively preparing for this event and looking for opportunities to create all the necessary astronauts right on the moon.