SpaceX has contracts with the NASA worth around $ 4 billion for the design and development of a moonlander based on the spaceship design. The Starship Lander is a central piece of the NASA architecture for the Artemis programWhat aims to return to the surface of the moon later this decade. In order for the spaceship to fly to the moon, SpaceX has to fill it with super cold drifts in the orbit with low earth, something that nobody has done before.
Musk sees the spaceship as the interplanetary backbone for the transport of freight and people to Mars, one of its most permanent long -term goals. This also requires tank formation from Orbital. Musk recently suggested that SpaceX could be ready to demonstrate the refueling of the ship to ship in 2026. A year later than the goal 2025 NASA officials discussed in December.
Starship will also start the next generation of SpaceX’s next generation. Before the start on Thursday, Ground-Crews invited four Starlink-Mock-Ups in Payoad Bay from Starship to test the mechanism of use of the rockets. Officials endeavored to evaluate the performance of the Heat -Shields from Starship Block 2 before they had committed to an attempt to attribute the intact ship (like SpaceX with the Super Heavy Booster) to a future mission. However, the early end of this test flight means that these goals have to wait.
SpaceX monitors the spaceship with an iterative development cycle. Engineers develop new designs, test them quickly and then take lessons into the next rocket. It is not surprising that a few rockets are blowing up with this spiral development cycle. Back-to-back errors, especially with so many similarities, can point out a more basic topic.
The flight schedule in the mission on Thursday demanded how to deal with the spaceship on a trip to Half world of Texas and culminated in a controlled re -entry over the Indian Ocean before he sprayed down from Australia northwest.
The test flight was to be written on fires on January 16, when the upper stage of the rocket ettwas was known as a starship or ship, on fires, which were driven by leaking gear in its motor bay. The engineers found that the most likely cause of the leak of drift agents was a stronger harmonious reaction than predicted, which indicates that the vibrations were resonance during the rise of the ship during the rise of the ship. This would have intensified the vibrations beyond the expected levels.
