Spent $ 10 billion: the world's most powerful rocket Ilon Mask may never fly into space

The lower stage of the rocket (accelerator) called Super Heavy exploded in a few minutes while attempting to land back to the starting ground. The upper stage of the rocket (spaceship with the same name Starship) exploded about 40 minutes after launching, after reaching the space and began to turn back. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The development of Starship rocket is accompanied by failures confirming 9 test flights that have been unsuccessful. Although failure is part of SpaceX's success formula, according to an engineer who became a journalist, Villa Louquet, a number of failures have been prolonged that SpaceX has probably got into a dead end with a Starship rocket.

One of the advantages of Starship is the ability to reuse its two degrees. If the accelerator and spacecraft can safely run multiple launches, it will save SpaceX and its customers time and money. Another advantage of Starship rocket is the ability to carry a huge number of cargoes and people at a time, which makes the mission more profitable in space, including future man -made flights to Mars.

However, two years later, as the Starship rocket first went to her test flight, SpaceX is still far from achieving her goals. During the powder flight, only the accelerator was reused for the second time, and the spacecraft was able to bring only 16 tons of loads into space, although it should carry 150 tons.

According to a loquet analysis, the Super Heavy accelerator is too heavy and fragile, so it must be upgraded and made lighter and stronger so that it can constantly make a return to the starting ground. The Starship spacecraft during the last two flights, though it reached space, but has a fuel leak. This means that there is a serious problem in the motor system that cannot be eliminated so far.

The loquet believes that the entire Starship rocket should be lighter than 100 tons and much stronger so that it can be used many times, but most importantly, it can work successfully during the test flight. LOCTT believes that it cannot be done.

Wendy Witman Kobb, an expert in the aerospace industry, says SpaceX has decided to perform a very difficult engineering task: to make both an accelerator and a spacecraft multiple and at the same time that the Starship missile could carry a huge amount of cargo. Witman Kobb says SpaceX has used a different approach to developing her multiple Falcon 9 missile, which is very reliable and is now the main "working horse" of Ilon Mask's company.

SpaceX engineers tried several years to make both degrees of Falcon 9 missiles repeated, but then decided that this would only be an accelerator. Witman Cobb maintains careful optimism as to the further fate of Starship. She believes that SpaceX will be able to force Starship to work and this rocket will be able to perform regular flights into space.

But the loquet believes that after nine unsuccessful test flights, which spent $ 10 billion, the development of Starship is in a dead end and it is unknown whether it can work normally. Focus has already wrote that Ilon Musk agreed that US President Donald Trump needs to be impeachment, and said he would decommissioned the Dragon spacecraft, which delivers goods and astronauts to the ISS. Focus also wrote that the ISS crew and the station itself were threatened.