During the company’s livestream, Dan Huot, the SpaceX broadcaster, declared: “Not looking great with a lot of our on-orbit objectives for today.”
This is not the first test the vehicle has undergone. Elon Musk’s Starship also surpassed flights in January and March, which ended in explosions and showers of debris over the Atlantic Ocean, and caused numerous flights to change course.
The flight ended without achieving its key testing objectives, bringing new engineering challenges and setting back Elon Musk’s plan of sending people to Mars.
In a post on X, Elon Musk highlighted a key milestone reached during the recent SpaceX Starship flight: the planned shutdown of one of its engines while in space. This step was also accomplished in last year’s test missions.
“Lot of good data to review. Launch cadence for next 3 flights will be faster, at approximately 1 every 3 to 4 weeks,” he claimed.
Footage of the Starship launch can be found on SpaceX's official X page.
Elon Musk was scheduled to give a talk on Tuesday titled “The Road to Making Life Interplanetary” ahead of the launch, but he postponed it just minutes before it was set to begin, saying it would take place after the flight.
However, he did not mention the talk again following the SpaceX Starship launch.
SpaceX has stated that the Starship models launched this year include major design improvements compared to earlier versions. Thousands of the company’s employees are working to develop this versatile rocket, which is designed to launch large numbers of satellites, return humans to the Moon, and eventually transport astronauts to Mars.
One of Musk’s visions is Starship taking over from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as the main vehicle for the company’s commercial launches. Falcon 9 currently carries most of the world’s satellites.
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