SpaceXLancering Starship
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 16:36
SpaceX’s Starship rocket has wrecked again during a test flight. About 45 minutes after launch, the signal was lost at an altitude of 40 miles. The craft probably exploded upon re-entry.
The third test launch is a success as far as SpaceX is concerned. “It’s incredible how far we’ve come this time,” the space company said.
The test flight was closely monitored from the control room:
Unmanned rocket explodes during test flight, but SpaceX is happy
The 121-meter-long rocket took off at Elon Musk’s space base in Texas. The Starship reached an altitude of more than 200 kilometers above Earth and a speed of more than 26,000 kilometers per hour.
SpaceX also hoped to practice landing in the sea. So it didn’t happen. In any case, the vessel was meant to sink. He would travel at a speed of 200 miles per hour checked crashing into the Indian Ocean.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starship should play a major role in NASA’s Artemis program in the future; the successor to the Apollo program that ran between 1961 and 1972, and led to the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969.