Alan Musk’s company SpaceX received another blow during the eighth test flight of its mega rocket starship on Thursday. Because, the spacecraft had lost contact within a few minutes of the projection. The engine stopped due to this, as shown in the company’s live stream. After this, the Starship rocket burst into the sky.
A few moments later, in several videos on social media, a spacecraft of spacecraft appeared in the sky near South Florida and Bahamas. However, the company has not declared this mission completely unsuccessful. The company says that during this launch, Super Heavy Booster worked successfully and SpaceX received significant data.
Contact with spacecraft broke.
SpaceX launched the starship on 7 March from its launch pad at Boka Chika, Texas. Everything was normal at the beginning of the flight and the super heavy booster worked successfully. According to the company, after the launch, the booster separated from the starship and fell into the sea as expected. This task can be considered successful as it was an important step towards the development of the company’s reusable rocket system.
SpaceX receives important data
However, SpaceX lost contact with Starship within a few minutes of the projection. The rocket lost control before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, causing the mission to remain incomplete.
The company declared the test partially successful.
This test of starship was important because the company is developing it for future missions like Mars and Moon. SpaceX described the test as partially successful and said that the mission has received significant data.
Allen Musk also responded that this test is a major step and this will help the company further strengthen its system. The company has started preparing for further tests and it is expected that the next effort will be made in the coming months.
SpaceX aims to create starships completely reusable spacecraft, which can be used for missions of Moon, Mars and other places. Although the starship was not successful in this mission, the data obtained from it will be used to improve future flights.
