EP26 starship explosion
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By the end of 2022, spaceX was preparing for a key test ,starships first test flight using both parts of the racket. Musk said the year before that there was lot of risks associate with the first launch I would not say like ,it is likely to be success , but I think we will make a lot of progress .The plan was for starship to take off from the launch part in Texas . The boost would then separate and fall into the Gulf of Mexico as the spaceX engines fired and took it in a 90 minutes flight . Then it would come down ,and crash in the pacific ocean , but that’s not what happened ,shortly after starship launched at 9,33am eastern . A graphic on the live stream indicated that three engines were not working . With more appearing to go out before the blast .The shutter that was intended to separate from booster here . Didn’t After climbing 24miles , the racket began to tumble back to earth , and around 4 minutes into its flight , starship explored .SpaceX said a flight termination system was triggered on both this spacecraft and the booster . When you have a failure ,you learned a lot from that failure . So I think their plan was to test to the point of failure ,and then let’s learn from what we can from that failure ,so it never happens again .tumble 翻滚shutter 快门booster 助推器