Texas – SpaceX Starship rocket prototype explodes during landing after test launch in National

SpaceXThe Starship prototype exploded while trying to land on Wednesday after a successful test launch from a company rocket facility in Boca Chica. Texas, Live video of the flight is shown.

A 16-story high-rise model for a heavy-lift launch vehicle being developed by the founder of the crashed Starship Rocket billionaire. Elon MuskPrivate space agency that will carry humans and 100 tons of cargo to future missions to the moon and Mars.

The self-guided rocket exploded when it hit a landing pad following a controlled descent. The test flight was intended to reach an altitude of 41,000 feet, three of which were advanced SpaceXNewly developed Raptor engines for the first time. But the company is unclear whether the rocket flew that high.

Immediately after the landing accident Musk said in a tweet that the rocket’s “fuel header tank pressure is low”, which means “touchdown speed is high”.

He said SpaceX Got “all the data we need” from the test and successfully completed the ascent phase of the rocket.

SpaceX It made its first attempt to launch the starship on Tuesday, but a problem with its raptor engines forced the automatic abort a second before the liftoff.

At 394 feet (120.09 m) when paired with a super-heavy first-stage booster, the full-fledged starship rocket, the company’s next-generation fully reusable launch vehicle – is at the center of Musk’s ambitions to make human space travel more affordable and routine.

NASA Award SpaceX With $ 135 million in development of the starship, rival ventures include Blue Origin, an aerospace company owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lidos-owned Dynatesis.

The three companies are vying for futures contracts to build moon landers under NASA’s Artemis program, which calls for a series of human-moon explorations over the next decade.

Hawthorne, California SpaceX Boca Chica, a village north of the US-Mexico border in southeastern Texas, is buying residential property to accommodate its expanding starship facility, which Musk envisions as the “gateway to Mars” in the future.

Musk faced resistance from Boca Chica residents who were reluctant to sell their homes.