SpaceX’s spacecraft was separated from the extremely heavy rocket booster and reached orbit on Tuesday evening, but later began to spin and performed uncontrolled re-entering into the Indian Ocean. SpaceX had cleared the surrounding airspace where Starship was dropping.
The ninth test flight provided the company with a mix of success and failure. It was the smoothest spaceship test of the year after two consecutive explosions. The spacecraft, launched at the top of the Super Heavy Booster, was lifted from a SpaceX facility in southern Texas on Tuesday night. It was also the first launch using the Super Heavy Booster, which demonstrated flights launched and returned during Starship’s seventh flight test.
The heavy booster was successfully separated and the spacecraft entered the space. However, the ship was unable to open the side cargo hatch to deploy the mock satellite in one planned test. Later on the flight, Starship lost control of his attitude. This means that we are no longer able to point properly for a re-entry.
The ninth flight test took place less than a week after the Federal Aviation Administration cleared SpaceX and ran a test flight of the spacecraft rocket system following these consecutive explosions earlier this year.
January, SpaceX I caught the spaceship heavy booster rocket under the second time. The spacecraft was separated from the booster, ignited the rocket and rose to orbit, but was soon lost after suffering abnormally. Debris from the spacecraft fell into airspace near Puerto Rico, prompting the FAA to reroute several aircraft in the airspace.
SpaceX conducted another test in March. This time the very heavy booster was well separated I caught it Third time with Texas launch tower. The spacecraft reached space, but eight minutes after flight, the ship lost multiple Raptor engines and began to spiral.
As a result of two explosions, the FAA has expanded the size of hazard areas in the US and other countries for flights, based on updated safety analysis provided by SpaceX. SpaceX completed its investigation into the loss of the spacecraft in its eighth flight test, and then made several hardware changes to make it more reliable.
