This huge unit that exploded during the last three test flights, this time successfully launched satellite simulators – for the first time – and returned to the ground, ending the journey in the waters of the Indian Ocean, just over an hour after the start.
It could be a breakthrough. The test flight was successful
On Tuesday, Spacex Elona Muska fired its gigantic Starship rocket in the tenth test flight, aimed at overcoming development obstacles and achieving the long -awaited technical milestone stones, key to the project of Marsian rocket of multiple use.
The 123 meters high Starship system started around 19:30 local time (around 1:30 in Poland) from the Spacex Starbase base in Southern Texas, as part of a mission testing new plates of the ship's thermal shields and the possibility of satellite arrangement, as well as hundreds of other improvements from previous iterations.
The upper part of the rocket separated as planned from its Super Heavy, measuring 71 m of the first degree, which usually lands in gigantic paws of the start tower, but on Tuesday he chose the target of the water of the Mexican Gulf to demonstrate the alternative configuration of the engine for landing.
In the meantime, Starship reached space after the trajectory leading to the Indian Ocean, where it was ready for launching after going through intensive heat while entering the atmosphere – the key phase of the test, which destroyed the rocket in previous flights, said Spacex Elona Muska.
