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After a number of unsuccessful flights, SpaceX managed to take his most successful test for months, with the spaceship fulfilled a number of important milestones.
It was a good day for SpaceX. The megarocket broke on time and left the Starbase Start Mount at 7:30 p.m. The stage separation went smoothly, with the super heavy booster in the sea almost 7 minutes after the mission. The second engine vote (Seco) occurred a few minutes later, and the spaceship began to drive in space, this time without the terrible fall that was experienced in the latest mission.
The story was written in the brand from 6:30 p.m. when the Starship opened its bern doors and for the first time had ejected the payloads into space.
In this case, the payloads of Mock-ups from Starlink satellites of the next generation were. The spaceship, which behaves like a PEZ donor, put every dummy satellite individually in space and at approximately one-minute intervals (the units fall back on earth and burn in the atmosphere). It was a big moment for SpaceX, with the spaceship finally acting as a delivery vehicle.
About 38 minutes after the start of the flight, the Starship illuminated one of its vacuum-optimized raptor engine das second time when SpaceX pulled the maneuver.
The reorganization of the spaceship began about the 45-minute brand, with the spaceship racing towards the Indian Ocean. SpaceX carried out a tension test for the vehicle and deliberately impaired his heat sign to be “common to the spaceship” and to bring it “through his steps”, as Dan Huot von SpaceX said during the show. The fins in particular were pressed to the border, one of them had clear signs of scars.
The upper level of the Starship Upper returned to earth at 8:37 p.m. and ended the 67-minute mission. Despite the abuse, the spaceship carried out its load moment flip, with a landing race and gently injecting into the Indian ocean before exploding in a fireball. Incredibly it managed to catch the campaign on a nearby buoy.
This was the flight that SpaceX urgently needed. We will learn more about the test in the coming days and weeks, but the modifications to the oversized starting system seemed to make the trick. But as we have learned, a single successful test is not a guarantee of future profit. SpaceX has a long way to go before this incredible starting system is fully functional.
