SpaceX announced on Tuesday (30) that its manned rocket “Starship” (Starship) the latest prototype number SN11, the same day in Texas during a test flight suddenly exploded in the air, scattering debris. SpaceX CEO Musk tweeted that the cause of the explosion is unknown and still pending investigation.
The “Starship” SN11 was originally scheduled for launch in Texas on Monday (29), but was finally temporarily rescheduled to Tuesday at 8 a.m. SpaceX live-streamed the launch process on Twitter and saw that the local very foggy and windy, the rocket slowly lifted off after launch, but when it reached the target altitude of 10 kilometers after landing, suddenly When the rocket reached the target altitude of 10 km and started to land, it suddenly exploded and some of the debris flew to a range of 8 km away, the whole process only 5 minutes and 49 seconds. Musk tweeted that the rocket’s second engine may have been the cause of the problem, but not necessarily the cause of the rocket’s explosion, will check to understand.
This has been the SpaceX “Starship” prototype for the fourth Time test flight failure, last December and February test flight of the rocket exploded after takeoff, the beginning of March this year, the rocket successfully launched and achieve vertical landing, unexpectedly in the landing 8 minutes after the sudden fire and explosion on the ground, the reason is still unknown.
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