
Matt Farrah of Newcastle, Australia views SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is prepared for launch on its ninth test at the company's launch pad in Starbase, Texas, US, May 27, 2025. — Reuters
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South Padri Island: Space X -stars Migak, founder Elon Musk’s Lunnity Lioncup, a colonial ambition to colonize Mars, exploded on his latest test mission on Tuesday when the last two visits to the ship ended in firearms.
The company’s starbase facility near a village in southern Texas, at around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT), launched the launch of the launched the launched launch, which recently voted to become a city, also known as the Star Base.
403 feet (123 meters) stands long, black and white color is eventually designed to be fully reusable and raises hopes of making the billionaire Musk’s humanity multi -faceted species.
NASA is also counting on a variety of stars to serve as a landler for Artemis 3, mission to return Americans to the moon.
But the last two tests ended with the upper stages of fireworks, which sent the debris on the Caribbean islands to disrupt the rain and flights – this time it was piled up on Space X to achieve it.
Prior to the countdown, dozens of spectators had a lot of excitement, who had traveled to a nearby Islami Balanka Park on South Padri Island, to find out if Space X would remove it.
50 -year -old Australian Pierrez Dawson told AFP that she was “madness” with a rocket and made it a destination on her family holiday.
“I’m just expecting a successful launch,” said Dawson. Obviously, that’s very interesting. “
Several small tourist boats were also tied to a glimpse of the spectacle, while a straight feed showed a “Mars occupying Mars” T -shirt and shown a canist of sitting on ground control at the Star Base.
‘Failing faster, learn fast’
To date, the stars have completed eight integrated test flights above the super heavy booster, ending in blasts with four successes and four failures.
The company is conditioning that its “fast, fast learn” point of view, which helped it to become a dominant force in the trade spacelight, will once again pay it.
Nevertheless, he admitted in a statement that the progress would “not always come to the jump.”
On the bright side, Space X has now shown three times that it can catch a super heavy first -stage booster in his launch tower’s giant robotic weapons.
The company will reuse a super heavy booster for the first time in this ninth flight.
Since the engineers want to blow it up in new ways that advance its limits – including a fastest angle, and deliberately disabled an engine – this time there will be no attempt to catch a super heavy booster. Instead, they will sprinkle the Gulf in Mexico.
Like the previous missions, the upper -phase ship will try to fly halfway around the world and sprinkle in the Indian Ocean.
The ship will also test tension: several heat tiles were removed, one of the many experiments aimed at re -use in long -term.
The purpose of Space X is to deploy its starlink link internet satellite “simulators”, which is expected to burn in the environment.
Issuing its launch, the Federal Aviation Administration said it had set the shutdown of airspace from the launch site about 1,600 miles east.
It is compatible with officials in the UK, British -controlled Turks and Kekos Islands, Bahamas, Mexico and Cuba.
The FAA recently also approved an increase in annual launches from five to 25 – saying that increasing frequency will not negatively affect the environment and will not eliminate objections from protection groups.