Spectators are watching the ninth launch of the Starship rocket in SpaceX from its cushion in the newly incorporated city of Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. The test flight ended with starships falling out of control and burning on the Indian ocean.
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Elon Musk's giant mega-fusée, several billion dollars, was again launched from Texas on Tuesday evening for another test flight. This time, however, the rocket lost control of the control due to a leak, which makes an unlikely controlled landing, SpaceX advertisers said during the delivery of the flight.
The rocket, known as starship, had a similar problem during its third test flight.
Tuesday's trip comes after two spectacular failures earlier this year, which saw test vehicles explode over the Caribbean, spread debris and force the region's planes to rush.
Starship is the largest rocket never built. On this flight, its lower stadium, known as “super heavy”, used 33 powerful motors to lift the spaceship to the edge of space. Starship then separated from super heavy and ignited its six engines. He stole around the earth for less than an hour, while performing many tests. Although several dummy satellites have been planned for the launch, a door on the ship has not opened as planned.
The test of the test flight ended when advertisers lost contact with the rocket, but they predicted that he would land in a disoriented position.
You can look at a replay from the launch below:
SpaceX says he would lead to water landing because he wants to test if the booster can successfully land without one of its three central engines. The engine will be deliberately disabled to see if the booster can compensate for the use of other engines on board.
Starship has finished a similar trip three times before, but he never exceeded North America during his last two test flights. A few minutes after the two launches, he exploded, doubling the Turkish Caribbean islands and caicos with debris and forcing the airliners to divert from their flight trails.
Starship Launchpad is located in Boca Chica, Texas, near a state park and a federal refuge on fauna, which has been examined by environmentalists.Ecologists have examined starship launches. The files of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on the quality of the environment show that SpaceX violated the Clean Water Act by spitting tens of thousands of wastewater gallons in the Texas environment. Last September, agencies collectively fined Musk around $ 150,000 last September for offenses. In addition, a report Through the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program, concluded that SpaceX launches have destroyed the nests of vulnerable shore birds.
But the company has traveled. SpaceX says he now thinks that failures have been caused by two separate problems with starship. The first, in January, was caused by “a harmonic response several times stronger in flight than what had been observed during the tests, which led to increased stress on the equipment of the propulsion system”, according to the company. The second failure in March was caused by a material failure above one of the six motors in the spacecraft, which caused a fire on board.
“While failure appeared at a similar time in the flight calendar as a seventh starship flight test, it should be noted that failures are clearly different,” said the company in a declaration After his investigation into the second incident.
