SpaceX chief Elon Musk explains why his firm’s Starship rocket exploded during a mid December test flight attempt.
After its representative shared new details about the third test flight of Starship earlier this week, SpaceX’s chief Elon Musk revealed why SpaceX’s second stage Starship exploded during its second test flight last month. Starship is the world’s biggest rocket, and the December launch saw the second stage ship successfully hot-stage separate from the first stage and make its way to space. However, its mission was not a complete success, as the second stage did explode after coating for a while.
According to Musk, the explosion took place because SpaceX had to vent excess oxygen out of the ship. Testing new rockets typically sees companies use a mass simulator for a payload to simulate flight conditions, and Musk added that the explosion could have been avoided had SpaceX used an actual payload for orbital delivery.SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Has Launched 42 Astronauts To Orbit While Starlink Users Sit At 2.3 Million
Musk revealed the reason behind the anomaly in SpaceX’s company talked. A little over a third of the talk shared by SpaceX on its X page covered Starship. SpaceX’s future depends on Starship since not only is the rocket essential for the firm to build out its Starlink internet satellite constellation, but it will also conduct lunar missions for NASA and eventual crewed Mars flights.
SpaceX’s latest Starship test took place in December, and while it saw the rocket successfully lift off and complete stage separation, the rest of the test saw both the first and second stages explode at different times and far away from each other.
