Spacex Starship finally destroys a successful experimental flight
Elun Maskak and His Spacex team can breathe a collective calm. After the postponement days, Starship finally began its 10 experimental flight from Launch Pad in Starbase, Texas.
The largest and most powerful Spacex missile on Tuesday, August 26, at 7:30 pm ET, reached 192 km high and trapped in an underground route more than 26,000 kilometers per hour, where the spacecraft shattered hours after getting up.
On Tuesday, Starship Liftoff made a much higher forecast than other recent Spacex test flights, with over 1.8 million viewers watching direct flow in the company’s X account. Why so much interest? For one, the catastrophic failure on June 18 that led to the massive explosion and the destruction of the Starship 36 vehicle, including other past cases. The program also worried about protests by activists and citizens in Texas over the environment and maneuvering inside and around Starbase. The Mexican government has also rejected the amount of waste that has ended in its territory.
Starship also plays an important role in Mask’s ambitions for Mars’ colonization, and its success in relation to the US government is integrated – the largest customer.
Starship is designed as a completely reusable space transport system. It consists of two parts: super heavy, a reinforcement that is supplied by a set of 33 raptors that provides the pressure needed to crack the ground. And Starship, the spacecraft that is responsible for carrying the crew and cargo to the exterior.
The 10th Starship flight test not only flew in half the world, but also responsible for deploying eight Starlink simulators, similar to the next generation of Starlink (V3) satellites. When the ship reached 190 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean over half an hour to the 190km altitude of the Atlantic, the simulators were successfully deployed. Experiments were also conducted on other elements of the vehicle, including the extremely heavy ability to perform a successful splash on the Mexican Gulf in minutes of the elevator.
Since Starship was ready for 26,660 kilometers per hour, the vehicle damaged its outer shell. However, an hour and six minutes after the elevator, he was able to reach his destination in a piece, until he tried to land in a vertical position over the ocean, which resulted in the anticipated demolition of the 37 vehicle. An explosion nearly an exciting day for the Spacex team, with many data to analyze on the horizon.
This story appeared first Wired en español And translated from Spanish.
