Spectacular flap. Elona Muska’s Starship rocket exploded in the air

It was the eighth test mission of the Starship rocket and the second harm. After a few minutes of flight, SpaceX’s spacecraft belonged to Elon Musk, turned into a ball of fire.

Starship rocket explosion: The failure took place eight minutes after the Starship rocket start from the port of Boca Chica in Texas, at an altitude of 145 kilometers. Four out of six engines turned off and the base lost contact with the unit. The rocket exploded at 20,000 kilometers per hour.

The largest rocket in the world: The explosion in the sky meant that the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily suspended flights in Florida due to falling remains. BBC reminds you that Starship is the largest rocket that has ever been created. It is 123 meters long and was to return to the earthly orbit on the Indian Ocean after an hour flight.

Starship key in the Artemis program: Super heavy rocket, which She helped Starship to break away from the groundshe managed to successfully return to the starting platform. Muska rocket is a key element of the artemis missionwhich aims to re -send people to the moon, as well as the program of future flights to Mars.

“Additional lesson”: There were a lot of recordings on the internet, which shows a spectacular explosion of SpaceX rocket and falling remains. Elon Musk has not commented so far the spectacular flap of his rocket test mission. However, SpaceX took the floor. In social media, she wrote, among others, that the Starship rocket disaster “will help improve its reliability” and this is “an additional lesson”. The statement states that The remains should fall “in a planned place” and the rocket did not contain any toxic materials. The company also provided an e-mail address and a phone number for people who will find any rocket residues.

See also: The remains of Elon Musk’s rocket in Poland. More on this subject in the text .

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