The Mega Rocket Starship of SpaceX is prepared for a test flight to Starbase, Texas on Sunday.
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SpaceX is preparing for the 10th test launch of its massive starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built.
The planned launch, from a SpaceX installation near Boca Chica beach in Texas, should occur during a one -hour window that opens at 7:30 p.m. he. The company says it will start a live webdiffusion about 30 minutes before takeoff.
SpaceX wants to put the massive booster of the rocket in two stages to the test, testing a series of burns and making it hover on the Gulf of Mexico before finishing its flight by falling in the water. The upper stage of the rocket, or section, will go on a suborbital flight which will involve an attempt to deploy simulated satellites.
This flight test comes after the sports vessel program of several billion dollars underwent a chess sequence this year. The last flight, in May, saw the rocket lose control. In June, an outdoor engine test resulted in a rocket explosion on the launch pad, sending a dramatic fireball.
The losses of expensive rockets are added, but the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has taken a publicly bloody position, displaying on social networks that “success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!”
However, operating the spaceship is important for NASA and SpaceX. NASA depends on starship to be the vehicle that has laid astronauts on the moon for the first time since 1972, and hoped to use it to this end as early as 2027.
Musk founded SpaceX in order to make humanity a multi-planetary species. He wants Starship to be able to take people to Mars so that they can colonize the red planet. Closer to his home, he also wants to use Starship to deploy Starlink satellites.
He and SpaceX are not foreigners to resist a series of bad test flights when developing a new rocket. The very first rocket in SpaceX, Falcon 1, underwent three misading attempts before finally reaching the orbit in 2008.
And even if Starship’s difficulties, SpaceX continues its daily work to support NASA missions at the international space station. Earlier Sunday, a robotic spacex capsule carrying food and other supplies for the station astronauts managed to trigger one of the Falcon 9 rockets of the company’s battle horse.
