Spoiled success – While SpaceX wants to accelerate the development of its Starship in 2025, the company repeated, on Thursday, the feat of catching up with its Super Heavy booster but lost the main stage, which exploded in flight after an “anomaly »
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company lost all contact with the second stage of its Starship megarocket on Thursday during a new test flight during which it nevertheless succeeded in the complex maneuver of catching up with the first stage, a feat. This test flight was to be a show of force for SpaceX, a few hours after the success signed by Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which carried out its first flight into orbit.
Elon Musk’s company once again showed its technical mastery by managing to catch up for the second time with the first stage of its Starship megarocket, the largest ever built. But the loud applause and cries of joy from employees quickly died down when Dan Huot, manager at SpaceX, announced the loss of communication with the second stage following an “anomaly with the upper stage”.
-“Unscheduled rapid disassembly”
The company then confirmed on its networks that the Starship, giving its name to the entire rocket, had been the subject of an “unscheduled rapid disassembly”. In other words: it exploded. “Success comes from (…) Read more on 20minutes
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