Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its first flight but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an 'exciting' test of the next-generation spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. | via philstarlife
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its first flight on Thursday, but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an"exciting" test of the next-generation spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
"The vehicle experienced multiple engines out during the flight test, lost altitude, and began to tumble," SpaceX said."The flight termination system was commanded on both the booster and ship."Despite the failure to complete the full 90-minute flight test and reach orbit, SpaceX and Musk, the founder and CEO of the private space company, declared it a success.
The US space agency NASA has picked Starship to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late 2025 for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972. Musk had warned ahead of the test that technical issues were likely and sought to play down expectations for the inaugural flight.NASA will take astronauts to lunar orbit itself in November 2024 using its own heavy rocket called the Space Launch System , which has been in development for more than a decade.
They failed to separate however and the booster rocket and Starshipspacecraft began spinning out of control, exploding four minutes into the test flight in what SpaceX euphemistically called a"rapid unscheduled disassembly."
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