‘Starship has landed’: SpaceX touches the craft of reusing nails Business and Economic News

The first four attempts to land a rocket designed to travel to the moon and Mars had spectacular accidents.

SpaceX has achieved the first successful touchdown of the Starship rocket prototype after the previous four landing attempts in explosions in flight on the next test of the next-generation takeoff vehicle in South Texas, USA.

Wednesday’s feat was a key milestone for Elon Musk’s private company of millions of tech-savvy Bilbao moguls to develop a reusable heavy lift launch vehicle that would eventually carry astronauts and heavy payloads to the moon and Mars.

The Starship SN15 took off from the SpaceX launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, along the Gulf Coast and reached a maximum planned altitude of 10 km (6 miles) and then flew in time under aerodynamic control. before.

As he approached the ground maneuvering in a vertical position under the thrust of the rocket, the 16-story three-engine vehicle fell to the soft touch on the landing gear.

“We’re down, Starship has landed,” said John Insprucker, chief engineer of SpaceX integration, in direct comments on the flight.

A video of the landing showed that the fire at the base of the rocket continued to burn after the engines were cut off, but an automatic fire removal system trained a continuous stream of water to the landing platform to eventually extinguish the fire.

The flight came on the 60th anniversary of the first space flight by an American astronaut – Alan Shepard launched a 15-minute suborbital mission over a NASA Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

‘Starship landing nominal’

Musk expressed success on Twitter, and posted a short message in the space flight’s oral speech: “Starship landing nominal!”

Nominal starship landing!

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2021

The four test flights before the starship prototypes – SN8 in December, SN9 in February and SN10 and SN11 in March – all exploded successfully, but shrank.

The entire Starship rocket, which will be 120 feet high when paired with its super-heavy-duty first-phase booster, is SpaceX’s next-generation launch vehicle at the heart of Musk’s plans to make human space travel cheaper and more routine.

SpaceX considered the Starship to be a fully reusable, versatile vessel that can carry as much as 100 metric tons and 100 passengers.

NASA has just chosen SpaceX to develop a lunar lunar astronaut system with Starship. The company also predicts a stainless steel behemot that will eventually be able to reduce travel times on Earth with point-to-point hypersonic travel.

The first flight of the Starship orbital at the end of the year is planned. Musk says Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa plans to fly around the moon in 2023 with Starship