Starship SN11 flies but does not land. For now, no one has finished the mission intact
yet another test for Starship, SpaceX's heavy carrier for deep space missions and heavy loads, and in theory designed to bring humans to Mars. No more chatter here is the video with the launch, which took place, I warn you, on a very foggy morning for southern Texas:
Also this time something went wrong: excellent start, excellent rocket shutdown, excellent re-ignition … but no landing. the rocket exploded during the reentry.
The explosion, of which you see the flying fragments, happened just before it hit the ground, a horizontal explosion, so some components did not hold when it was put under pressure.
On the one hand it is almost normal that all these happen, indeed better that accidents happen now that in 10 launches, when, perhaps, the carrier will be carrying a spacecraft. However, both SN10 and SN11 showed a dangerous weakness in the landing phase. However, there are 4 more test flights ready, while SN16 to SN20 are under construction.
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