SpaceX launched its ninth stars Test Flight on May 27, with the first important reuse of the starchy hardware. As planned on Flight 9, the two stages of the stars were successfully separated, and the upper phase reached the place. However, the two finally lost before completing their goals. Despite these shocks, the mission has obtained valuable data that affects SpaceX’s repetition approach for innovation as it aims to create a fully reusable launch system for space missions. This test flight shows the successful reuse of a super heavy booster and aims to perform hard work.
Previous test flights
According to the official site of Space X, the two stages of the starchy are a major booster, known as the super heavy and the 171 -foot -tall (52 m) in the upper stage, known as the spacecraft, or just known as the “ship”. Both Space X’s new Ripter is powered by engine – 33 of them for super heavy and six for the ship.
On Flight 7 and Flight 8, Super Heavy performed flawlessly, burned its engine and then returned to the star base for the launch tower’s “Chop Stick” Arms. But the ship was worried: After launching on both missions, it exploded in less than 10 minutes, with debris raining on the Turks and Kekos islands and Bahamas, respectively.
Production in flight 9
In Flight 9, Space X for the first time re -used a super heavy booster, changing only four of its 33 repeater engines after the opening flight in January. The Booster also tested a new environmental entry to enter a high angle to collect data related to aerodynamic control. Meanwhile, the ship (upper stage) was assigned to deploy eight dummy star link satellite.
Despite promising progress, Flight 9 suffered many failures. About six minutes after the launch of his withdrawal, the super heavy was broken, and the fuel tank leakage ended control of the ship. In the upper phase, the disturbance began, which stopped the space engine planning and caused a devastating re -entry to the Indian Ocean. Nevertheless, SpaceX obtained important data specifically on tile performance and active cooling system.
