Attempt # 10. Ilon Musk reported when the flight of the most powerful rocket in the world will take place (video)

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! SpaceX's founder and CEO Ilon Musk wrote in his social network X that the tenth Starship test flight should take place in about three weeks. This means that the Starship rocket has to launch a new launch by the end of August, if everything goes according to plan. This will be the fourth test run for Starship this year.

We would like to remind you that this rocket system consists of two degrees: Super Heavy rocket launcher and Ship spacecraft. Both degrees are intended for reuse, ie Starship 122 meters high is a multiple rocket. In doing so, it uses engines that make it possible to create the greatest craving among all available space missiles. SpaceX has created Starship in order to carry a large number of people and cargoes both in the Earth orbit, and further into space: a month and Mars.

But in order for these plans to become reality, the rocket must prove that it can be operated, and 9 test flights were already being operated, which were not quite successful. Ilon Musk probably does not lose hope that the new launch will be successful, but as focus has already written, some experts believe that the Starship rocket will never be put into operation at all. It is worth saying that the preparation for the tenth flight was difficult.

On June 18, as focus wrote, the upper degree of Starship exploded during ground testing of engines. SpaceX soon determined the probable cause of the explosion: there was a failure of a tank with nitrogen in the nasal of the spacecraft. So now SpaceX is preparing a new ship for 10 Starship flight. We remind that during the seventh, eighth and ninth test flight Starship, the upper stage of the rocket exploded earlier this year. But the Super Heavy rocket showed the best results.

For example, during the 7th and 8th flights, the lower degree successfully returned after launching on the starting ground. There he "caught" her manipulators with the starting tower. During the 9th flight, Super Heavy exploded while trying to return. SpaceX plans to use Super Heavy and Ships after returning to the starting tower manipulators, which will increase the efficiency of reuse of each Starship degree.