2023-11-22 11:20:56
The largest rocket in the world, the Starship of the SpaceX company, flew through the air on its second test flight, this Saturday over the skies of Texas. Although the mission did not achieve its goal of circling the Earth before falling into the Pacific, its eight minutes duration left several lessons – and some good news to the team led by Elon Musk.
SpaceX explodes, but learns: the huge Starship performed better and they spoke of “partial success”
A technology site analysis Gizmodo points out, for example, that the rocket took much less time to take off from the tower than on its first flight on April 20, with a more controlled launch. Furthermore, unlike that time, when they failed six of the 33 Raptor engines, this time they all lit up.
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The combined action of these motors produces more than seven thousand tons of force at takeoff, which turn it into the rocket more powerful that has ever taken off (NASA’s Space Launch System generates four thousand tons of force). And unlike the developments of the American state agency, the ship traveling aboard the Starship is capable of returning to Earth, fully recovering.
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Although the definitive causes of Saturday’s explosion are not entirely clear, it is known that one of the propellants exploded at three minutes. Space third takeoff within three or four weeks, but not before submitting an accident report to regulatory agencies. Meanwhile, Musk is wasting no time: there are already three other ships in the final production stage. The NASA is watching them closely as it seeks to hire Space Luna and in Artemis Marsthe new stage of space exploration.
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