Spaceks Starship finally withdraws a successful test flight

Elon musk and his Spaceks The team can breathe a collective sigh of alleviation. After the delay, Starship was finally able to start his tenth test, he could fly from the launch panel in Starbase, Texas.

Spacek’s largest and most powerful rocket raised this tuesday, 26. August at 7:30 p.m., and went to Podbias trajectory at more than 26,000 kilometers per hour to Indian, where the spacecraft sprayed an hour after enduring.

Tuesday Starship Liftoff was generated anticipation of other recent sparcex test flights, with more than 1.8 million spectators looking at the transfer of a company. Why so much interest? For one, the catastrophic failure 18. June resulted in a huge explosion and destruction of Star’s Vehicle 36, among other things, past accidents. The program also attracted protests by activists and citizens in Texas alarmed by An impact on the environment on testing and maneuvering in and around the ageless. The Mexican government also reduced the amount of debris ended in its territory.

Starship also plays an important role in Male ambition to colonize Marsand her success is an integral Relationship with the US government– The biggest customer.

Starship is designed as a fully portable reusable portable system. It consists of two parts: super heavy, amplifier starts a set of 33 engine raptor that provide the necessary thrust to leave the country; Both Starship, SpaceCraft, which would be responsible for carrying crew and cargo to the universe.

The tenth test of the Starship not only flies only halfway the world, it was also responsible for scheduling eight simulators of Starlink, artifacts similar to the sizes to the next generation of Starlink (V3) satellite. Simulators were successfully arranged when Starship reached an altitude of 190 kilometers during the Atlantic Ocean within half an hour of Liftoff. The tests were also performed on other elements of vehicles, including super hard ability to perform successful sleep within Mexico in relation to Mexico water.

As Starship was prepared for re-entering 26,660 kilometers per hour, the vehicle showed little damage to his outside shell. However, one hour and six minutes after lift, it was able to reach a destination in a piece over the ocean, resulting in the stipulated vehicle destruction. Explosing close to the exciting day for the Spacipex team, with a lot of data for the horizon analysis.

This story originally appeared Wired in Spanish and has been translated from Spanish.