SpaceX will try to launch its Starship Megarocket on the main test flight Tuesday, a few months after two launch failed when the upper -cycle vehicle exploded and rain debris over the Mexican Gulf and Caribbean parts.
Tuesday’s unpublished launch – “The Ninth Starship Pilot Flight – is scheduled to blow up from the SpaceX Starbas, Texas, through the launch window that opens at 7:30 p.m. Et.
The 400 -foot -high Starship is the most powerful rocket ever created and consists of two parts: the first cycle amplifier, known as the Super Heavy and the upper -tier spacecraft. Megarocket is the cornerstone of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk aim to reach Mars.
Musk is expected to deliver from Texas “The Way to Life Multileette” after Tuesday’s test flight.
Recently, Musk said he retired from his famous role in Trump’s administration to focus on SpaceX, Tesla and his other business. Since the beginning of the president’s second term, Musk has overseen the extensive and controversial dismissal of the Federal Government as the Department of Efficiency of the Government.
The upcoming test will be closely monitored by two previous Starship failures. Tuesday’s flight will be the first to use a particularly heavy amplifier that flew on a previous mission and returned to Earth.
The company said Starship was going to be a completely reusable system. With three previous trial flights, SpaceX successfully distracted the dramatic maneuver to “catch” a particularly heavy amplifier returning to its launch site and settled on the launch tower robots’ hands.
The last Starship flight in early March was short after the mission controllers lost contact with the upper tier vehicle for about nine minutes after the ascent.
Later, the videos came from the Florida and the Caribbean smoke ball over the head and garbage pieces that teared through the sky. Airports throughout Florida ordered temporary land stops for “space launch garbage”.
A separate test mission on January 16th. It also caused an explosion of the upper tier vehicle over the Caribbean. Dust and small pieces of garbage fell over Turkish and Caika, but the local government said there was no injury or serious damage.
The Federal Aviation Administration supervised investigations after accidents and announced last week when it allowed Starship to fly again to expand the danger zones along the rocket flight on the renewed safety requirements.
The previous Starship flights had dangerous areas – areas where boats and air traffic must not enter – 885 marine miles. But on Tuesday’s mission, those zones will grow to 1,600 marine miles, covering dryness and water to the east of the lunch, through the Strait of Florida, including the Bahamas and Turkish and Caika.
For the latest test flight, SpaceX said he would experiment with a few “non -nominal scenarios” with an extremely heavy amplifier. As a result, according to the company, the first phase will not return to the Catch Manuver launching site.
If it reaches orbit, the upper -tier vehicle will try to deploy eight modeled Starlink satellites, which will eventually burn in the Earth’s atmosphere. The mission managers will also try to intertwine one of the Raptor spacecraft engines while in space.
Musk is about to use Starship to be used for future missions to Mars, but SpaceX officials said the company would probably carry out hundreds of test missions until all people fly a new generation of rocket.
This article was originally published in nbcnews.com