Successful flight but not at all: how went launching Starship Ilona Mask's rocket (video)

SpaceX sent a giant mega -sackete to space, but not everything went according to the plan, as during the past two trials. After two unsuccessful test launches into the space of the largest and most powerful rocket system in the world Starship from SpaceX Ilon Mask, on March 14, the third flight took place. Although he was much more successful than the previous two, the two main components of Starship did not live up to a soft landing, Space writes. In focus.

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! On March 14, the third test launch of the Starship megarapen, which in a fully assembled form, has a height of 122 meters from the SpaceX SpaceX in SpaceX. It consists of two components: Super Heavy rocket and Starship spacecraft, which is above it and has a height of 50 meters.

Two test flights of Megaragetes ended in explosions last year, but SpaceX engineers used the data obtained and made technological changes so that the third flight was successful. In principle, it can be said that it has gone better than the past two flights. One of the important achievements is that the spacecraft flew into space and first reached orbital speed. But for both the components of the Starship rocket system, it all ended not very well.

A few seconds, after starting all 33 Raptor engines, which equipped the first degree of megaroade, Starship went to her third test flight. By the way, it happened as when celebrating the 22nd anniversary of SpaceX. Two starships high in the sky were divided approximately 2 minutes 45 seconds after the start, and the Super Heavy rocket launched began to prepare for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Starship spacecraft flew into space. But the first -degree motors did not start, so it just fell.

It is important to note that the new SpaceX megaret, designed to load the amount of amounts and people in the Earth orbit, moon and Mars, should be multiple. That is, a launch vehicle and a spacecraft will be able to perform many flights, because their soft return to Earth is provided. At the same time, the spacecraft that flew into space, still did not get into the Earth's orbit, but entered the suborbital phase of the flight.

It was expected that after 65 minutes the ship would gently drive into the Indian Ocean, but during the entry into the atmosphere, the communication with the ship was lost and it just fell. Although the test was not quite successful, SpaceX representatives said that several key goals were achieved during the flight. The causes of the next catastrophe will now be investigated to understand what happened to a rocket and a spacecraft that together make up a Starship megarakete.

But SpaceX needs to solve technological problems urgently and show that the rocket system can successfully perform the tasks. At least because Ilona Maska has concluded a contract with NASA for the delivery of astronauts to the surface of the moon in 2026 with the help of a planting ship, which is one version of the Starship spacecraft. That is, SpaceX has little time left for NASA to confirm that the ship is ready for use in a historic monthly mission.