The Spacex Starship missile failed to spread satellites and explode when re -entering

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Spacex suffered from another setback on Tuesday when the Starship Championship missed an area, but failed to spread its load and lost part of the car when re -entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

While the Mammoth 400ft missile was successfully pushed to the sub -orbit from Starbase in Texas, it was unable to deploy eight satellites. Loss of control of its upper phase on the leaves of the Indian Ocean Spacex You need to undergo a great work to achieve its goal of manned flights to the moon and Mars.

“The spacecraft has witnessed a rapid, undeclared dismantling. The teams will continue to review the data and work to test the following flights,” Spacex said in a statement.

Spacex has already transported the vehicle into space and was able to spray the ship down to the ocean as planned. She also has The reinforcing missile reinforced missiles caught on the ship Theater is in its giant robotic arms when it returns to Earth.

The missile maker said that he was following a number of test targets, including a more declining return angle with its supportive missile, which pushed the car to its borders. She did not try to restore the lower stage in Starship, allowing her to crash the ground in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The leaks caused the loss of the main tank pressure during the coast stage and its decline. A lot of good review data,” the founder of Spacex Elon Musk He said in a post on the social networking site X.

The launch provided some comfort to the billionaire. He was criticized for allegations that he had distracted his attention from politics. Musk, the largest donation of Donald Trump in 2024, pledged to re -focus on his various commercial interests, including Tesla, the electric car maker after retrieval of the shareholders.

Mousse, who was scheduled to submit a late Tuesday update on the company’s plans to reach Mars, said that Spacex would launch its first unequal letter to the Red Planet next year with plans to send people there by 2029. It plans to build the city of Martian within two decades.

“Being a multi -phase will be of a possible life of consciousness, as we will not have all our eggs, literally and also, on one planet,” Musk was previously published on X.

NASA has contracted on Spacex to launch a specific task to the moon using Starship earlier in 2027 as part of the Artemis mission. It is expected to launch a cube this year.

Spacex reported that his failed journey in January witnessed “a quick dismantling, non -scattered” due to a fire in the “Al -Taliya” section. The explosion of its journey in March stems from an error in the upper phase engines of the vehicle.

On both occasions, the debris in the Atlantic Ocean fell over the Bahamas, the Turks and Kaikos, while hundreds of flights left from the airports in Florida were based.

The Federal Aviation Administration asked SpaceX to stop the operation after the accidents, but it occurred on another flight last week, saying that the company “carried out all corrective measures.”

Spacex has conducted more than 400 missile launch since its inception, which put it at the top of competitors, including the origin of the blue Jeff Bezos. A fixed set of launch operations through Rockkets Falcon 9 has made successful attempts by the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, but a much larger NORSHIP missile represents a greater technical challenge.