The latest SpaceX Starship rocket underwent a rough test flight Thursday, disintegrating within nine minutes of liftoff.
This was the Starship rocket's seventh test flight, which launched Thursday from the Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, and lasted nine minutes before SpaceX lost contact.
“We certainly lost the ship,” said Kate Tice, SpaceX's senior manager of quality systems engineering.
“Starship experienced an unscheduled rapid breakup during an ascent burn. The team will continue to review data from today's flight test to better understand the root cause. comes from what we learned and today's flight will help improve Starship's reliability,” SpaceX said in a post to X.
Shortly thereafter, social media users posted videos of what appeared to be a fireball in the sky near the Caribbean islands. Please take a look:
According to NBC News, the Federal Aviation Administration issued Warning to pilots of “Rocket Starship debris fall hazard area.'' Various flights over the Caribbean were diverted.
“The FAA temporarily slowed and diverted the aircraft near the area of fallen spacecraft debris. Normal operations have resumed,” the FAA said in a statement.
“No one was on board the Starship flight. Elon Musk“The company was flying 10 'Starlink simulators' in the rocket's payload bay and planned to deploy satellite-like objects into space,” NBC News noted. “This would have been an important test for the rocket.” abilityThat's because SpaceX needs Starship to deploy the next generation of Starlink satellites, which are much larger and heavier. ”
“SpaceX has not disclosed the material the Starlink simulator is made of, but mass simulators are commonly used in rocket rocket development and are often made of metal or concrete that weighs about the same as the object in question. It's a simple structure,” he added.
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