During its third test flight on Thursday, SpaceX’s giant rocket achieved higher speeds than its previous two attempts. However, the spacecraft was lost during landing.
About an hour after launching from the southernmost point in Texas, near the Mexican border, the corporation said its spacecraft lost contact with SpaceX. When he got close to his goal. Which landed in the Indian Ocean. .
Minutes after takeoff, two test flights from last year resulted in explosions.
After launching on Thursday, Starship. It is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever. which headed for the Gulf of Mexico. SpaceX’s spacecraft headed east. While the booster was safely separated. And after a while fell into the gulf. Neither humans nor satellites were on board.
SpaceX commentators said that contact with the spacecraft had been lost an hour later.
"The ship is nowhere to be found. Thus, according to SpaceX's Dan Huot, there won't be a splashdown today. However, once more, it's astounding to see how far we've come."
Elon Musk of SpaceX congratulated his staff at the start of the flight. According to Musk, “SpaceX has come a long way,” through the defunct Twitter platform X. On this Thursday, exactly 22 years ago, the rocket firm was created.
At 121 meters (397 feet), the futuristic-looking rocket and ship far surpass NASA’s previous and current moon launches.
NASA observed with great interest: for the space agency to land humans on the moon within the next two years, Starship must be successful. At least the first two moon landings by this new generation of moonwalkers—the first since the Apollo program of a century ago—will occur in a spaceship.