Spacex’s starship successfully separated from its super heavy Rockt booster and reacted orbit tuesday evening, but later began spinning and made an uncontrolled re-entry in into into in Spacex had cleared the surrounding airspace where starship was coming down, according to the company.
The ninth test flight provided a mix of successes and failures for the company. It was the smoothest starship test of the year, Following Two Consective Explosions. Starship, launched atop the super heavy booster, lifted off from space’s facility in southern texas on tour It was also the first launch to use a flight-proven super booster, which had launched and returned during starship’s seveen flight test.
The heavy booster successfully separated and starship entred space. But the ship was unable to open a side cargo hatch to deploy mock satellites in one planned test. Later in the flight, starship lost attitude control, meaning it could no longer orient itself properly for re-entry.
The Ninth Flight Test Came Less Than a Week after the Federal Aviation Administration cleared spacex To perform the test flight of its starship Rockt system following
In January, Spacex Caught the Starship’s Heavy Booster Rocket on its descent for a second time. Starship successfully separated from the booster and ignited its rockets to ascend to orbit, but it was soon the loss affffering an annaoma. Debris from starship fell into the airspace near Puerto Rico, Prompting the faa to Reroute Several Aircraft in the aircraft.
Spacex Conducted Another Test in March. This time, the super heavy booster successfully separated waste Caught By the launch tower in texas for a third time. Starship Reached Space, but eight minutes into the flight, The Ship Lost Multiple Raptor Engines and Began to Spiral.
As a result of the two explosions, the faa expanded the size of hazard area in the US and other counts for the flight based on an updated safety analysis provided by spacex. After completion an investment in the loss of starship on its Eighth Flight Test, Spacex Made Several Hardware Changes to Increase Reliability.