After three failures in a row, SpaceX puts mega rocket upgrades to the test

After three catastrophic flight failure, SpaceX prepared a great super -heavy star rocket to release the Test to the market from Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday evening to deliberately emphasize the vehicle to make various upgrades to the test and to learn more about its abilities.

Super Heavy’s 33 methane -burn raptor engines are expected to start at the Starbase production and flight facility near Brownsville, Texas and Mexico Border, EDT, EDT, which is allowed to start at 19:30.

The flight plan wanted to push from the intense lower atmosphere before falling around, wandering around and moving towards the shore, creating more than 16 million pounds of 230 meters of 230 meters, 30 meters.

During the three of the previous nine test flights, the booster returned to the launch ramp where the giant mechanical arms on the service port had descended in the air. This time, due to the planned tests, the super weight is expected to go down to the Gulf.

“The primary test targets for Booster will focus on the burning of landing and use unique motor configurations on the SpaceX web page. He said. “One of the three -centered engine used for the final stage of the landing will be deliberately disabled to collect data about the ability of a spare engine from the medium ring to complete a landing burning.”

The booster will then use the two engines towards the end of the landing and will remain for a short time before falling into the Gulf.

Meanwhile, the 160 -meter star vessel, supported by the six Rapor motors on its own, will go back to a suborbital orbit carrying half of the world before the re -entry before the entrance to a navel and will go to a rocket descent to jump in the Indian Ocean.

In addition to distributing the eight Starlink simulator satellites, Starship’s flight computer will try various other tests, including an area of ​​motor restarting to verify a large number of upgrades after the latest test flight failures.

“Flight test includes various experiments that allow Starship to return to the launch site,” SpaceX said. He said.

“During the entry, a significant number of tiles were issued to vulnerable areas throughout the vehicle during the entry.” “Starship’s re -entry profile is designed to deliberately emphasize the structural boundaries of the back flaps of the upper stage at the maximum input dynamic pressure point.”

It is critical for SpaceX and founding Elon Musk, which designs ultra heavy -fiber rockets to work in insects from giant launcher, to start thousands of new generation stars and other satellites in the Earth’s orbit.

Rocket is also critical for NASA, which pays more than $ 3 billion to develop a modified version of the Starship top stage to move Artemis astronauts to SpaceX in 2027 to the moon surface.

However, this flight will only require a “human landing system” or HLS, Lander, a 10 to 20 super -heavy star flight to Lander. Thousands of gallon super cold liquid nitrogen and oxygen in space have never been tried.

And it is still unknown how SpaceX plans to control the repulsive temperatures to minimize the amount that will naturally heat up and turn into a gas that must be sailed. SpaceX did not give any details.

Considering the number of flights to be carried out successfully to demonstrate the reliability of NASA, 2027 target date for Artemis 3 MOON landing is considered to be unreal, although not impossible to be realized by many aviation observers.

China plans to start its own astronauts in 2030 on the Moon, and at this point, NASA and SpaceX’s Chinese flag will first return to the moon using Starship Lander on the surface of the Moon.

Considering the size and strength of the super-heavy star, there were more than twice the existing space launching system of Nasa or SLS, Moon Rocket-technical problems were not unexpected during the development.

However, considering the short time between NASA and NASA’s first planned Artemis Moon landing, the problems clearly brought back the program and the requirement of 10 to 20 problems in a short time to feed Lander to the general task architecture, especially for the moon flight.

The first three test flights of the super -heavy booster and the upper stage of the super -heavy booster in 2023 and 2024 ended with failures that were destroyed in both stages, either interconnected or destroyed after leaving.

The fourth flight in June 2024 was generally successful with a controlled leap in the Gulf itself, and the star ship followed the sub -orbital orbit planned to jump in the Indian Ocean. The fins of the ship were damaged by re -entry heating, but when necessary, otherwise it worked.

The fifth flight in October 2024 was emphasized by a successful super heavy turn to the launch ramp pasteor, which the giant mechanical arms rocket wears in the middle. In the meantime, Starship, despite the second controlled leap in the Indian Ocean, the finance was again damaged during the entry.

During the sixth integrated flight test in November 2024, he tried another turn to the Super Heavy launch area, but was directed to a gulf jump due to the damage to the Critical Sensors in the Pad’s capture mechanism. The star vessel flew to a controlled Indian ocean jump with minimum flap damage.

However, the next three flights ended with catastrophic failures in January, March and May this year. The two super -heavy booster successfully returned to the launch area, but the last time he tested an angle of attack angle, he left on the Gulf.

Two -star vessels were destroyed after disaster failures, including two repulsive leaks, built -in fire and multiple motor failures.

In addition to the flight record, another star vessel was destroyed when a motor test in the Starbase launch area exploded during a high -pressure nitrogen tank during ignition.

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