Almost two months after an explosion sent flaming debris on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another Mammoet Starship Rocket on Thursday, but lost the contact minutes in the test flight when the spacecraft came down.
The 403 -feet rocket (123 meters) shot a bit for sunset from Texas. SpaceX caught the first phase booster back to the pillow with gigantic mechanical arms, but engines on the spacecraft at the top started to close when it was striped to the east for what a controlled entrance over the Indian Ocean should be, half a world away.
Contact was lost with the spacecraft when it went in a spider that got out of hand.
The space rug flight would take an hour and could not release the fake satellites in the room as planned. The spacecraft reached almost 90 miles (150 kilometers) in height before the problems struck. It was not immediately clear where it came down.
“Unfortunately this happened last time, so we now have some practice in this,” said SpaceX flight commentator than Huot from the launch location.
NASA has booked Starship to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade. Elon Musk from SpaceX strives for Mars with Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket.
Just like last time, Starship had four fake satellites to release as soon as the vessel reached space on this eighth test flight as a practice for future missions. They looked like SpaceX's Starlink Internet -satellites, thousands of which are currently running the earth, and were intended to fall back after their short taste of the room.
The flaps, computers and the starship fuel system were redesigned in preparation for the next big step: redirect the spacecraft to the launch location, just like the booster.
During the last demo, SpaceX conquered the booster from the launch cushion, but the spacecraft blew over the Atlantic Ocean a few minutes later. No injuries or major damage were reported.
According to a study that is still ongoing, leaking fuel has activated a series of fires that close the engines of the spacecraft. The built -in self -destruction system was started as planned.
SpaceX said it has made various improvements to the spacecraft after the accident, and the Federal Aviation Administration recently deleted the Starship for the launch.
Internships are floating from the southernmost tip of Texas near the Mexican border. SpaceX is building a different Starship complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the home of the smaller Falcon Rockets of the company that turned astronauts and satellites.
