Musk writes that it seems that Nitrogen Copv has failed below its proof pressure, in situations that did not damage the tank. Musk added, “If further investigations confirm that this has happened, this is the first time for this design.”
Is picking up pieces
Earlier on Wednesday, a few hours before the explosion in the Starbase, a consultation issued by the Federal Aviation Administration said that Space X had set a temporary launch date for the next starship test flight on June 29. This will not happen anymore, and it is someone to guess that when Space X will be ready to fly, another starch will be ready.
The Missy Test site, named after the gun range, once occupied the property, is located only a few hundred feet away from the Mexican border, at a turn in the Rio Grande River. The test site is the only place where the SPSX rocket can put the starchy through proof testing and static fire tests before being ready to fly.
The damage to Messi’s ground equipment was not immediately clear, so it would be too soon to say how long the test site commission. For now, though, the explosion leaves Space X without any convenience to support pre -light testing on the stars.
The videos below come from Nasaspaceflight.com and the lab pedreeme, which shows several angles of the starchy blast.
The explosion in Messi is a reminder of the rocky path of Space X to get starchy in its development. In 2020 and 2021, Space X missed several starchy prototypes during the test of land and flight. In a similar situation on Wednesday night, with the death of a Falcon 9 rocket on its launchpad in 2016, the scene of the Ship’s flames returned to the flames of 36.
Space X has launched nine full scale steering rockets since April 2023, and before the explosion, the company expected to start the 10th Test flight later this month. This year’s starchy track record has been terrible, with three recent rocket -based test flights expired. The shock followed the winner of 2024, when Space X ended the rocket’s massive super heavy booster’s first catch with a giant robotic weapon on the launchpad tower.
Decorated simultaneously, the super heavy booster stage and the starship are standing more than 400 feet long, making the largest rocket ever. SpaceX has flown the reusable super heavy booster, and the company itself also designed to recover the stars.
After last year’s successes, SpaceX appeared on a full orbit flight, trying to catch and recover the starchy, and a major space refueling demonstration in 2025. The fuel demo has been officially slippery by 2026, and the question mark is whether SpaceX will make considerable progress to try to recover the ship before the end of this year.
Amits meet the truth
Space X launched an upgraded starchy design, called version 2 or Block 2 in the test flight in January. Since then it has been a shock after another.
The new design of the starch is slightly taller than the starchy version, which is flown by SpaceX in 2023 and 2024. It has a better heat shield to better cope with the intense heat of environmental recovery. SpaceX also installed a new fuel feed line system to root the methane fuel in the ship’s raptor engines, and a better propulsion avionics module that controls the vehicle’s valves and reading sensors.
