SpaceX Starship: The world’s largest and most powerful rocket designed to send humans to the Moon and Mars exploded in the sky after launching on Thursday. It was launched from the private SpaceX Spaceport Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas at 7 pm Indian time on Thursday. Despite the failure, the SpaceX company has encouraged the scientists.
Elon Musk-owned company SpaceX tweeted that congratulations to the entire team for the first flight test of Starship. The team will continue to review the data and work toward the next flight test. It also said that the rocket’s flight from the launchpad itself was a great success.
With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 20, 2023
We got a chance to learn, there will be success in future
The SpaceX company said that today’s launch was not thrilling. But such testing will help us in further success. Today’s test will help us improve the reliability of Starship, as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary.
Watch the launching and the explosion in two different VIDEOS…
Liftoff of Starship! pic.twitter.com/4t8mRP37Gp
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 20, 2023
Why did the explosion happen?
Indeed, the Starship capsule should have separated from the rocket booster in the first stage three minutes into flight. But the separation did not happen and the rocket exploded. At the time of the explosion, the rocket was at an altitude of 33 km.
Starship Super Heavy has experienced an anomaly before stage separation! 💥 pic.twitter.com/MVw0bonkTi
— Primal Space (@thePrimalSpace) April 20, 2023
Know how big was the rocket?
Starship was the world’s most powerful rocket designed to send humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Its height is 394 feet, diameter is 29.5 feet. This rocket is divided into two parts. The upper part is called Starship. Its height is 164 feet. It takes 1200 tonnes of fuel. The second part is super heavy. This is a 226 feet high rocket. This will take the starship to an altitude.
Explain that this was SpaceX’s second attempt to complete the first test flight of Starship. The lift-off of the rocket was canceled less than 10 minutes before the scheduled launch due to pressure in the first stage booster.
