Tech giants Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk will be present on Monday, January 20, at the inauguration of Donald Trump. Four days earlier, the company of the notorious reactionary Elon Musk, Space X, carried out a test flight of its Starship megarocket on Thursday January 16. This test flight was to be a show of force for the company of the richest man in the world. If the company succeeded in the complex maneuver of catching up with the first stage, all contact was lost with the second stage of its megarocket.
The loud applause and cries of joy from the employees quickly died down when a manager announced the loss of communication with the second floor. “We lost all communication with the ship”declared Dan Huot, of Space X, during a video broadcast, before specifying that there was “had an anomaly with the upper floor”. The vessel would have been the subject of a “unscheduled rapid disassembly”. In other words: it exploded.
Jeff Bezos’ first flight into orbit
“Success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability” tried to put the company into perspective on X, a network of which Elon Musk is also the owner. The latter specified that the explosion had probably been triggered by a “oxygen/fuel leak”.
For its part, the American aviation regulator, the FAA, reported having “briefly slowed and diverted aircraft around the area of falling space vehicle debris”. « Normal operations have resumed »he added in a press release. The outgoing head of NASA, Bill Nelson, congratulated Space X for having recovered the propellant, emphasizing on “spaceflight (was) not easy”.
The operation by which the godfather of the fascist international wanted to display his power therefore turned out to be a semi-failure, a few hours after the success signed by Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which conducted its first flight into orbit. Jeff Bezos wished ” good luck “ to his rival Elon Musk before takeoff, a few hours after the latter rushed to congratulate him “for reaching orbit on the first attempt!” ».
-Furthermore, Elon Musk, who spent tens of millions of dollars to support the Republican’s presidential campaign, will take the head of a ministry responsible for “governmental efficiency”, posing great risks of conflicts of interest . Especially since Donald Trump also appointed Jared Isaacman, a billionaire associated with Space X and friend of Elon Musk, to head the American Space Agency.
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