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

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Starship, 123 meters high, is the largest and most powerful space rocket in the world. It is designed to deliver people and cargo not only in orbit, but also for a month and Mars. Starship consists of a lower degree, which is a Super Heavy and upper-degree missile, which is a Ship space ship.

So far, SpaceX was unable to conduct any fully successful Starship test for nine launches. But after the investigation of the causes of the last catastrophe, the Starship missile federal department of the US civil aviation gave permission to the tenth test launch, which will take place on August 25. SpaceX stated that they have taken into account all the mistakes and the new flight should be more successful.

The ninth flight of Starship took place on May 28 and ended with an explosion of two rocket degrees: both Super Heavy and Ship, as focus has already written. During the Super Heavy flight, after the upper stage was separated from it, she returned to the ground not as expected. Instead of causing the Super Heavy Gulf in the waters, it exploded at an altitude of about 1 km above the bay.

SpaceX concluded that increased pressure led to a rupture of the internal fuel line, which caused the explosion of liquid oxygen and methane in the fuel tanks. It was also known that after the start of a separate flight into space in the upper stage, the leakage of methane from fuel tanks occurred. This leak gradually destabilized the spacecraft orientation system and interfered with the testing of maneuvering in space.

After that, the accumulation of liquid methane led to the complete discharge of fuel residues into space, and this was the reason that Ship began to descend into the Earth's atmosphere in the wrong position. Instead of causing the spacecraft in the Indian Ocean, the spacecraft exploded during the descent. SpaceX concluded that the cause of SHIP problems could be a malfunction of the gas distribution device used for fuel supply.

SpaceX needs to be successfully conducted both the tenth and eleventh testing flight. The fact is that NASA has chosen Starship as a landing module for the first landing of a person for a month since 1972. A mission called "Artemis-3" is scheduled for 2027. But if there are new problems in Starship, the mission can be postponed. Focus also wrote about why the eighth Starship rocket test ended in a disaster.