SpaceX will launch the 8th Starship missile test

Specific launch time has not been published, but it is likely that viewers will have the opportunity to directly monitor the event through the livestream like seven previous launches.

The last seventh test flight took place on January 16. SpaceX has succeeded in capturing Super Heavy booster missiles with robotic arms, also known as the “wand -grabbing” technology of the Tower at Starbase as planned.

The upper part of the 52 -meter high rocket is expected to deploy a first load on flight No. 7 – including 10 Spacex’s Internet Starlink satellite model – flying around most Earth and landing to India. Duong after about an hour after launching. However, this did not happen. The upper part is broken in the Atlantic for more than 8 minutes after flying due to fuel leaks.

SpaceX has not published specific goals for the 8th flight, but the higher chance will be the same. Use becomes more efficient. According to Musk, the company intends to do this for the first time in early 2025, but it is difficult to happen during flight No. 8 after the 7th incident.

On February 24, SpaceX confirmed that the cause of the 7th incident was due to a much stronger resonant reaction during the flight than the test, resulting in increased pressure on the hardware in the push engine system. “Fuel leak then exceeded the vents of the” attic “area (The area does not apply at the tail of the ship, located between the bottom of the oxygen barrel and the thermal shield. 6 Raptor engines of the ship runs by liquid methane and liquid oxygen) leading to prolonged fire, “SpaceX explained.

The fire “made all except for a Starship engine performing the shortcut chain control and eventually led to loss of contact with the ship,” SpaceX said. The loss of contact occurred about 8.5 minutes after the flight 7. The ship’s flight ending system automatically activated a few minutes later, causing the ship to break.

SpaceX has taken steps to minimize the possibility of similar incidents in future Starship flights. For example, the company has tested the 60 -second “static burning” engine with the ship that will fly on Starship’s 8th flight.

Starship is a launching system that is gradually proving the ambition to bring people to Elon Musk’s Mars. This is the highest missile system, about 121 m, and the strongest ever made, capable of producing nearly 8,000 tons of thrust when launched. The system consists of Super Heavy push floors and the upper floor is Starship used to transport people and cargo. Super Heavy’s mission is to bring Starship to an orbit, then Starship will continue with his engine and the floor pushes back to Earth. Both parts can be reused.

SpaceX has not yet recovered any Starship from the launchers to the space. Up to now, every Starship ships have flown into the space to sink into the Indian Ocean. Particularly, the Super Heavy push has twice returned to the launch tower with the technology of “chopsticks”.

NASA chose the Starship to bring the astronaut to the Moon in the Artemis program. When the Starship ship the journey to the Moon, it will have to be in orbit near the Earth while SpaceX launches separate means of support for refueling for the ship. The mission to carry the astronauts landing on the moon will take place at the earliest in 2026.