SpaceX Mars rocket prototype explodes again

SpaceX Mars rocket prototype explodes again

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The three engines of the rocket were lit, switched off and re-lit for the landing as planned, but the rocket exploded into a fireball when it returned to the launch pad. It was not immediately clear what went wrong.

SJohn Insprucker, engineer of tempoX, said in the company’s live stream that many of the test flights ‘looked very good’, and engineers were able to collect data to improve the design of the Starship during the flight, which reached about 10 km, or six miles, high.

“We showed the ability to switch the engines to the landing tank, the subsonic entry looked very good and stable,” Insprucker said. “We just have to work on the landing a little bit now.”

The test launch comes after the 160-foot-long rocket prototype crashed on the Texas launch pad over the weekend. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, SpaceX violated an agreement with the public safety agreement that the federal regulators had during a previous test launch.

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Last Thursday, fueled with Starship SN9 and enabled to start with any womant, the FAA sent a surprising advice saying the launch was scrapped.
The FAA, which oversees U.S. airspace as well as rocket launch licenses, has ordered SpaceX to suspend operations at its test facilities in South Texas “that could affect public safety,” the agency said. After the FAA earlier refused to comment on its investigation, which was first reported by The Verge, it said it had concluded this week that SpaceX had taken ‘corrective action’ and was now complying with public safety rules. . The agency did not disclose the nature of the public safety issue or what remedial action has been taken.
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According to the agency’s statement, the FAA reinstated SpaceX’s permission to launch its rocket prototypes late Monday.

The company did not respond to requests for comment for more than eight months, nor did it respond to requests for comment.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, who used Twitter earlier publicly violated the FAA last week, wrote on Tuesday morning that he would be “From Twitter for a while. “

At the root of the rift between SpaceX and the FAA was a test launcher SpaceX launched in December of a prototype known as Starship SN8, one in a series of early prototypes the company built in its efforts to launch a rocket design that the first humans to Mars. Prior to the launch, according to the FAA, SpaceX sought a waiver to exceed the maximum public risk permitted by federal security regulations, but the agency declined the request.

But in any case, SpaceX continued to launch the test and launched the vehicle on a high-altitude “hop test” that saw it successfully reach the desired altitude and perform a series of aerial acrobatics before exploding on its launch site crashed.

It is not clear whether the FAA would have investigated the company, regardless of whether SN8 landed successfully.

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The FAA was already focused on launching its licensing process to make it more “streamlined”. But it is not clear whether the updated procedures, which are expected to take effect in the near future, could quickly help SpaceX loosen the public safety restrictions on the license for its launch.

SpaceX has once again assembled a Starship prototype, SN10. It’s not clear when the company wants to launch it, but over the weekend the company rolled the vehicle with a launch pad next to where the SN9 took off.

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