Subject: ?SpaceX Starship Hits Some Targets, Misses Others on Latest Test Flight?
?SpaceX Starship Hits Some Targets, Misses Others on Latest Test Flight?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-starship-hits-some-targets-misses-others-on-latest-test-flight
?One missed mission goal suggests that reaching orbit is at least two
test launches away.?
?SpaceX?s Starship rocket returned to space on Friday after more than
seven months off (and more than three years after the star-crossed debut
of its first version) as a largely redesigned launch vehicle that
performed a moderately successful test flight.?
?Starship V3 lifted off at 5:30 p.m. Central time from SpaceX?s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas, on 18 million pounds of thrust from 33
Raptor 3 methane-fueled engines in its first stage?two more engines than
in V1 and V2 Starship boosters.?
?One of those 33 engines cut out at about a minute and 40 seconds into
the flight. However, the booster completed its part of the mission as
the second stage kicked off Starship?s ?hotstage? procedure, in which
the upper stage?s six Raptors ignite just before the booster detaches,
venting through a ring of struts between the two stages.?
?Then the booster?s engines failed to relight to control its descent, thwarting plans for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.?
Lynn
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