Make Spacex some Apply for another test trip to the world’s strongest missile on Tuesday, and finally overcoming the technical problems that were afflicted by launching the previous two programs.
But minutes after the task, the SpaceX vehicle lost control while roaming through space, and then returned to the air somewhere over the Indian Ocean after an hour of takeoff from Starbase, Texas, which is owned by the owned royal band near the borders of the United States.
Rocket is designed from the next generation of Spacex to transport goods and private and governmental crews between the Earth, the moon and Mars. The missile is complicated and determined, wider and longer than the Jumbo 747 plane, and nearly two years after the continuous progress since the first test flight in 2023, this was a year of setbacks for the vehicle.
During the previous test flight – both cases using the upgraded “Block 2” design – problems in the ship’s payment system led to a leak during the launch, ultimately led to an early closure of the main engines of missiles. In both flights, the car floats from control and separated from the debris on an area near the Bahamas, the Turkish Islands and Kaikos.
The good news is that this did not happen on Tuesday. The main ship’s engines were launched for a full period, and the car was placed on its expected track towards spraying in the Indian Ocean. For a short time, the ship seemed to have been on the right path for a successful trip.
“The vehicle has reached the scheduled ship’s engine, so, a significant improvement on the last flight! Also, there is no significant loss in heat shield tiles,” Elon Musk BooksFounder of Spacex and CEO, on X.
Bad news is that a Tuesday test trip revealed more problems, preventing Spacex from achieving the most important goals that Musk set to go to ever.
“The leaks caused the loss of the main tank pressure during the coast and re -entering,” posted on X. “a lot of good review data.”
With the loss of the tank pressure, the missile began to rotate slowly as it was wandering in the space area 100 miles above the ground. This loss of control has made it clear another early end for the oral vehicle test trip. The most prominent of which is the unparalleled journey targets is Spacex’s desire to study the performance of the heat shield in the ship, which includes improved tiles to absorb heat to improve the face of incendiary temperatures to re -enter the atmosphere.
“The most important thing is the data on how to improve tile design, so it is basically data during high heating, re -entering to improve the tiles for the next repetition,” Musk Ars Technica said Before Tuesday’s flight. “So we have like ten or more experiments. We are trying to paint different on tiles. We are trying to various manufacturing techniques, different attachment techniques. We compromise the filling of the gap of the tiles.”
Engineers are hungry data on the changes in the heat shield, which cannot be fully tested on the ground. Spacex officials hope that the new tiles will be more powerful than those transferred on the first generation, or version 1, than the Starship version, allowing future ships to land and search quickly again, without the need for time, renewal, and in some cases, tile alternatives. This is the primary principle of Spacex plans for stars, which includes the delivery of astronauts on the moon, and the low Earth’s orbit is spread with fuel tankers, and eventually in establishing a settlement on Mars, all of which are based on the rapid reuse of the championship and heavy increase.
