SpaceX scrubs latest Starship launch due to bad weather
After a series of explosive failures that have started to create doubts about the tenth test flight, which can take place on Tuesday, comes in an increasing examination for the world’s most powerful launch tool.
The stainless steel giant, 123 meters tall, was set to get up from the company’s base in Southern Texas in a window opened at 18:30 with local time (2330 GMT).
A relatively routine problem on the space aircraft was a second delay two days after the leakage of a ground system, and on Sunday, an attempt.
The mission aims to put the upper stage, also known as “starship” or “ship” or “ship” or just “ship” through structural stress tests while flying in half of the world before spreading to the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX will also try new heat-cuffs and try to use fake Starlink satellites as cargo. Unlike recent initiatives, the “super heavy” booster will not be caught by the giant “rod” arms of the launch tower, instead of a controlled leap in the Gulf of Mexico. The company’s aggressive “Fast, Fast Learn” approach was loan by giving space opportunity in the space launching area through the Falcon Rocket Family. It becomes a geopolitical being. However, the concern accumulates whether these achievements will turn into Starship, a rocket, on the contrary. Three 2025 test flights exploded.
Two scattered wrecks on the Caribbean islands, and the third was shattered after reaching the area. In June, another top stage exploded during a “static fever” test.
Gain Civilization
Musk, who appeared on the web broadcast on Monday, rose characteristically, repeated his vision of Mars as a lifeguard for humanity, and should strike the world to the disaster.
However, he added that beyond the preservation of survival, he said that there are more refreshing motives: “A future that we are a civilization that builds space, is much more exciting than something we’re not.”
Even if the tenth flight is successful, great obstacles are ahead.
“There are thousands of engineering difficulties for both the ship and the booster, but perhaps the largest is developing a completely reusable orbit heat shield.” He said.
The slogan shakes the idea of blasting nuclear bombs on the ice caps of the red planet to release greenhouse gases and make more soil -like.
Another important obstacle is to prove that star ships can be refueling in orbit with super-cooled repulsive gas-an unprecedented success, but a success necessary for the rocket to perform deep space tasks.
Delays to the Star Ship can wave the Artemis program, which aims to return the US astronauts of NASA to the mid -2027 month using a modified Starship version.
