Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Just Reached New Milestones!
Early on Thursday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation massive rocket thundered into orbit during a critical test flight intended to showcase innovative technologies and methods that would be essential for the upcoming moon and beyond missions. And so, what are the major milestones that Starship IFT-3 has reached? Let’s find out!
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On its third test flight, a SpaceX Starship rocket took off from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday morning. The rocket accomplished several milestones before it most likely broke apart.
An integrated flight test lasting almost an hour was conducted with the deep-space rocket system. At the end of the flight, the massive spaceship was supposed to splash down in the Indian Ocean, preparing it for future, more difficult test flights and, eventually, a mission to send NASA men to the moon.
However, the team lost contact with the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, or TDRSS, and Starlink, SpaceX’s internet service, at the same moment after reentry.
During the live broadcast, SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot stated, “The team has made the call that the ship has been lost, so no splashdown today.” “But again, just it’s incredible to see how much further we got this time around.”
Furthermore, SpaceX never planned to retrieve Starship following this flight test. It was anticipated that the spacecraft would land hard. In addition, the Starship spacecraft flew farther than it did in its two prior tests in 2023.
Failures during these early test flights are typically explained by the corporation as typical. The purpose of these flying tests is to collect vital data that will allow engineers to make necessary adjustments to Starship in order to make it better for upcoming missions.
At 8:25 a.m. CT; 9:25 a.m. ET., SpaceX’s private Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, launched the Starship vehicle, which consists of the upper Starship spaceship and a rocket booster known as the Super Heavy.
In order to fulfill its original goal of sending humans to Mars for the first time, SpaceX considers the Starship system as crucial. Furthermore, NASA has decided that Starship will be the landing craft used to transport astronauts to the moon during the Artemis III mission, which is scheduled to launch as early as September 2026.
“Congrats to SpaceX on a successful test flight! Starship has soared into the heavens. Together, we are making great strides through Artemis to return humanity to the Moon— then look onward to Mars,” as NASA Administrator Bill Nelson stated on X, the former Twitter platform.
The Super Heavy rocket, the launch vehicle’s first stage or bottommost section, roared to life and soared over the Gulf of Mexico.
The upper stage that sits atop the Super Heavy, the Starship spacecraft, separated from the Super Heavy rocket after it used up the majority of its fuel.
As per Huot, the rocket “didn’t light all the engines that we expected and we did lose the booster.” The booster was supposed to make an autonomous, controlled landing in the ocean.
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