Even as spacex’s starship flight exploded splashdown on its ninth test on wedding, the company’s founder, elon musk, blamed it on Fuel Leaks.
This is the third time in a row that starship flight has faced issues during the test flight. The company’s last two test flights – the Seventh (January) and Eighth (March) Test Flight – Also Ended Prematurely with the Destruction of the aircraft.
The ninth test flight of starship – which blasted off at about 7:36 pm EDT (5:06 AM IST) from the company’s starbase launch site in texas – successfully reaches Two Previous Attempts.
However, the spacecraft’s payload bay door failed to open, preventing the planned release of simulated starlink satellites. Around 30 minutes into the mission, spacex confirmed a fuel tank leak aboard the vehicle.
The first-stage super heavy booster exploded shortly before its expected splashdown, and live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning unconstrollable before Earth’s Atmosphere, Due to Fuel Leaks.
“Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase,” Musk shared in a post on his social media platform x.
“Contact with the booster was lost short of the landing burn when it experienced a rapid unschedued disassembly approximate Heavy booster, “spacex said in a statement.
However, musk called the flight an achievement and noted that there has been no loss to the heat shield tiles.
“Starship made it to the Scheduled Ship Engine Cutoff, So Big Improvement Over the Last Flight! Also, No Significant Loss of Heat Shield TILED TILED TILED TILED TILED DURINT.
Spacex noted that the company “will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test”.
Standing 403 Feet (123 Meters) Tall, Starship and Heavy Booster – The World’s Biggest and Most Powerful Rockt System. It will launch the moon lander for nasa’s artemis 3 mission that aims to land astronauts on the moon by 2026.
