He successfully fulfilled his tenth test of the Starship test took off at 18.30 Texas local time – 1.30, Spanish peninsular time – from the Spacex base in southern Texas (USA) after two postponements due to technical and meteorological problems, and the upper part of the ship threatened without problems in the Indian Ocean one hour and six minutes later.
The rocket is composed of the Super Heavy propeller and the Starship ship, and the goal of Spacex is to find the key and lower costs in its efforts to return to the moon and reach Mars, great goals from the owner of the aerospace company, the tycoon Elon Musk.
The previous three tests ended with the loss of the Starship ship, so Spacex had to make multiple modifications. The investigation of the ninth flight of the Starship on May 27 determined that there were fuel leaks that affected the control of the stability of the ship, which ended up promoting its explosion. In addition, he withdrew a significant number of ship tiles to test the limits of his vulnerable areas during his reentry in the Earth’s atmosphere.
The proof of just over an hour was broadcast live online thanks to cameras in the ship and Starlink satellites, also owned by Musk, and was interrupted occasionally by employee cheers when the different marked milestones were overcome, such as the separation of the propeller and the ship. Super Heavy separated from Starship for about seven minutes after takeoff and fell in a controlled way in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, south of the United States, as expected, but it is not clear if a piece.
Spacex also managed to do two tests that he could not undertake in the previous three tested tests failed to simulate the satellite deployment, with false devices, through a side gate of the ship, and re -exist an engine during the flight, something that Spacex managers indicated that it is an important milestone achieved for the first time. Next, the Starship ship followed its ascending course towards space and about 45 minutes after takeoff began its reentry in the atmosphere, reaching a subsonic speed towards the final destination of its journey: the Indian Ocean.
