The FAA cleared Space X’s starch to fly again after the end of the previous flight review last week, which ended in an explosion, and the next test could begin with Tuesday. Space X is watching for the Ninth Flight Test of the Starshad on May 27, in which the launch window opens up at 7:30 pm ET (6:30 pm for local time for Texas Star Base). For the first time in this launch, Space X will be reused by a super heavy booster. Earlier this year, the booster was flown to flight with the seventh flight test of the stars. Although the single -use parts have been replaced, Space X says it is reusing 29 of the booster’s 33 reptor engines.
As usual, the audience at home will be able to see by tuning in the current series, starting 30 minutes before launching. It will be available in a broadcast on SpaceX’s website and on its X profile.
SpaceX conducted the eighth flight test of the stars in March, but the vehicle went on a few minutes after the launch. The Super Heavy Booster managed to return to the launch site after separation from the upper stage and was successfully caught with the tower’s “Chop Stick” arms, but the ship itself, several repetor engines closed, causing it to mess up and eventually blow itself.
Space X says the case was probably due to hardware failure in one of the upper stage center raptor engines, which resulted in inadvertent property mixing and ignition. ” Since then, some changes have been made to prevent it from being again. Space X said in a updated May 22 that “at the upper stage of the starchy, engines will get an additional pre -load on the key joints, a new nitrogen parajus system, and the improvement in the property drain system.”
For flight nine, the super heavy booster will not return to the launch site, but instead will sprinkle in the sea. The Starship will try to deploy the upper stage eight -star link link dummy satellite, and SpaceX is otherwise looking for a flight that “many experiments focused on enabled the upper stage of the starchy to return to the launch site”.
