But even if the flight test seemed a success, after just 8 minutes the company’s diagram showed that the Starship had lost more Raptor engines and started to loop over the ocean.
“We just saw some engines go out, it looks like we are losing attitude control of the ship. At this point we have lost contact with the ship.”, Dan Huot the manager of SpaceX communications, stated directly on the broadcast.
This SpaceX Starship launch failure came just a month after the recent SpaceX test that ended also in an explosion. We don’t know for sure why this explosion took place just minutes after the departure of the skyrocket.
For the previous failure, the company investigated the reasons why the test was not a success. They determined that a propellant dripped inside the Starship skyrocket and caused a significant explosion.
Elon Musk is trying with every test flight to improve the Starship's features and components in order to reach its initial plan to send humans to Mars.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, debris from this SpaceX Starship launch test was seen at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Orlando airports, and issued ground stops for flights.
While the Elon Musk Space X company stated that the launch debris wasn’t toxic, the FAA still requires the company to examine the exact cause of this failure and provide the sign-off to the administration before the next test flight is scheduled.
Stay tuned for more updates!
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