Spacex gets great victories during the tenth stars test

The huge space missile was lifted from Spacex on the tenth trips on Tuesday evening, beaten for a long time and set an end to a series of failures.

The 403 -foot car was lifted from Starbase, the Spacex launch facility, and recently City, at 7:30 pm Easter after two scrubs earlier this week. The missile climbed 33 Raptor engines fueled by methane before separation about three minutes after take off.

Upon landing, the super -heavy supporter tested a new maneuver: the intention of the engines used to land and move to backup engines. The test will help engineers to understand how the supporter performs in case of failure. It seems that the test has been planned, as a 232 -footed supporter has succeeded in making a targeted splash in the Gulf of Mexico.

Meanwhile, the upper stage, which is also called Starsip, reached space. There, for the first time on a championship trip, it opened the door of the beneficial PEZ load and issued eight satellites from Starlink. This is the ability that Spacex has planned, but it failed to demonstrate in the previous tasks. The company also succeeded in obtaining one of the RAPTOR engines in space before directing the car towards the Indian Ocean, where it retreated, responded, and exploded immediately.

On the bottom, the outer part of the ship is exposed to the amazing heat while re -entering the atmosphere, providing an excellent test environment for the promotion thermal protection system. SPACEX also used this test to try a series of experiments, such as removing tiles from sections of the ship to find out how its “skin” works to re -enter, as well as a new metal tile and actively cooled.

Most importantly, however, it is the upper stage I completed the entire test and spray in the Indian Ocean without losing COMMS with Spacex engineers. During the last trip, the ship reached an area and then lost control of parking during the coast, which prevents the doors of the beneficial load from opening. It seems that the engineers have overcome these issues.

It is a great victory for Spacex, who has repeatedly lost the upper stage of the “Supreme Starsp” due to a series of technical failures during the trip. Continuous issues raised questions about whether the missile will be ready to land the moon on the surface of the moon by mid -2017 for NASA, or when it will be able to spread satellite satellites from the next generation of the company.

This test represents a financial progress for the mouth program, which the company wants to use ultimately to send humans and goods to Mars. Although Spacex still has to complete a series of difficult technical monuments before you can get there, it approached one step tonight.