The recycling of Musk’s giant rocket has already been partly successful

A space company On Thursday, SpaceX’s seventh test flight of the giant Starship produced news images showing the time of that time, in which pieces of the destroyed nose of the ship fell from the sky.

Because of the parts, some flights had to be canceled in Florida, news channel CNN tells. Some aircraft in the air avoided the area.

As a result of the explosion, the FAA grounded Starship. SpaceX must conduct an investigation into the causes of the accident and propose corrective actions before the platform can be used again.

Air traffic control lost contact with the starship’s nose section after a good eight minutes of flight. The engines in the tip worked first, but in the final stages of combustion, something went wrong during takeoff.

The tip means the actual Starship, the final version of which should take people into space and bring them back.

According to the plans, the ship was supposed to fly for more than an hour and then land in the Indian Ocean off Australia. It was successful on the previous test flight, so that only minor damage was done to the ship. On the previous two occasions as well, the ship landed in a fairly controlled manner.

The remnants of the Starship looked like shooting stars.

A reason to the destruction of the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk announced messaging platform in X initially a fuel or oxygen leak and the resulting pressure rise.

According to Musk, in the future it is necessary to ensure that similar leaks do not occur and to improve the management of fires.

The ship’s Raptor engines are the first of their kind in spaceships. They work with methane and oxygen, which must be converted from liquid to gaseous before ending up in the actual engine.

The engines are powerful, but obviously complicated with pre-burners and everything. Even a small fault can do a lot of damage when new technology is tested in tough conditions.

After losing contact with the Starship, the ship moved on Ars Technican apparently more than 21,000 kilometers per hour at an altitude of more than 140 kilometers. You could tell that SpaceX’s live broadcast by.

A slightly developed version of the ship was tried again. It was a couple of meters bigger than previous models. The ailerons were smaller and they were closer to the nose of the ship and further away from the shield protecting from the heat of the landing.

The idea was to reduce the exposure of the wings to heat. When the Starship descends at high speed, the temperature of the outer surface of the ship can rise to more than a thousand degrees in a real situation, CNN reminds.

There were other changes, for example in the ship’s fuel system.

Secondly The seventh test flight of the Starship was also successful. The lower part of the giant ship, i.e. the launch vehicle, returned to its starting point as planned.

The ten-meter-tall ship settled in its starting place in a controlled manner like a pair of pliers, mostly intact. Its flight lasted about seven minutes in total, Space.com – site says.

And it wasn’t the first time. The same was achieved in October with the fifth test flight. On the next sixth test flight, it was decided to divert the launch vehicle to the Gulf of Mexico, because there was a problem with the connection between it and the tower of the launch pad.

On the seventh The test flight had to be new in that ten models of satellites were to be released from the nose section. They corresponded in size and weight to the next generation Starlink satellites of the SpaceX company. The models of the satellites were supposed to end up in the Indian Ocean.

Almost 7,000 real Starlinks are already orbiting the Earth, and the company plans to eventually have more than 40,000 of them.

SpaceX has planned that in the future the Starship should rise higher than in previous test flights. The goal would be to get into low Earth orbit for the first time, much higher than where the Starship was apparently destroyed.

However, the ban imposed after a partially unsuccessful test flight will delay the Starship ships’ test program. SpaceX had applied for permission from the FAA for 25 test launches during the current year. Last year, four tests were conducted.

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An important goal would be to get the Starship ship intact back to the launch platform, to which only the launch vehicle alone has been successfully delivered.

A demanding test would also be where the larger versions of the Starship meet and transfer fuel from one ship to another. However, it would be vital, for example, in terms of planned hearings.