Mitchell Holman[_9_]
May 30th 20, 10:48 PM
Miloch > wrote in
:
> https://gizmodo.com/spacexs-starship-prototype-explodes-in-fourth-faile
> d-te-1843766989
>
> Like everything else in 2020, the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s
> next-generation rocket has gone up in flames. It’s the latest in a
> series of spectacular explosions to plague the company’s Starship
> program.
>
> Shortly before 3 p.m. ET on Friday, the Starship SN4 prototype
> underwent a ground-level trial of its Raptor engine known as a
> static-fire test at the company’s development facility near Boca
> Chica, Texas. For the last few weeks, SpaceX has been putting it
> through a round of routine stress tests there after obtaining
> licensing from the Federal Aviation Administration for short,
> suborbital trials.
>
> Friday was the vehicle’s fifth static-fire test, and everything
> appeared to be going well at first. Though it remains unclear exactly
> what caused the explosion, in a livestream of the event from LabPadre
> it looks like a gas leak begins about a minute after engine shutdown,
> followed by a massive fireball that quickly engulfs the prototype and
> appears to damage the test site.
>
> To be clear, the Starship SN4 prototype involved in this failed test
> isn’t related to SpaceX’s historic launch scheduled for this weekend.
> On Saturday, the company’s set to send two astronauts to the
> International Space Station on behalf of NASA using its Falcon 9
> rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft.
>
> This prototype was the latest vehicle meant to test out the design for
> SpaceX’s future Starship, a reusable rocket in development with the
> aim of carrying up to 100 people and ferrying passengers and cargo to
> Earth’s orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
>
> SpaceX has lost all three of its previous Starship versions to similar
> mishaps. The first two exploded under pressure tests while the third
> came tumbling down in April because of an issue that CEO Elon Musk
> later attributed to leaky valves. And while the Starship SN4 prototype
> survived a longer battery of trials than its predecessors, it looks
> like the series will have to wait on that round of flight tests until
> at least SN5—which the company has purportedly already begun
> assembling.
>
>
>
> *
>
> begin 644 SpaceX's Starship Prototype Explodes.avi
> Attachment decoded: SpaceX's Starship Prototype Explodes.avi
> `
> end
>
>
You learn more from your failures
than your successes.........
:
> https://gizmodo.com/spacexs-starship-prototype-explodes-in-fourth-faile
> d-te-1843766989
>
> Like everything else in 2020, the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s
> next-generation rocket has gone up in flames. It’s the latest in a
> series of spectacular explosions to plague the company’s Starship
> program.
>
> Shortly before 3 p.m. ET on Friday, the Starship SN4 prototype
> underwent a ground-level trial of its Raptor engine known as a
> static-fire test at the company’s development facility near Boca
> Chica, Texas. For the last few weeks, SpaceX has been putting it
> through a round of routine stress tests there after obtaining
> licensing from the Federal Aviation Administration for short,
> suborbital trials.
>
> Friday was the vehicle’s fifth static-fire test, and everything
> appeared to be going well at first. Though it remains unclear exactly
> what caused the explosion, in a livestream of the event from LabPadre
> it looks like a gas leak begins about a minute after engine shutdown,
> followed by a massive fireball that quickly engulfs the prototype and
> appears to damage the test site.
>
> To be clear, the Starship SN4 prototype involved in this failed test
> isn’t related to SpaceX’s historic launch scheduled for this weekend.
> On Saturday, the company’s set to send two astronauts to the
> International Space Station on behalf of NASA using its Falcon 9
> rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft.
>
> This prototype was the latest vehicle meant to test out the design for
> SpaceX’s future Starship, a reusable rocket in development with the
> aim of carrying up to 100 people and ferrying passengers and cargo to
> Earth’s orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
>
> SpaceX has lost all three of its previous Starship versions to similar
> mishaps. The first two exploded under pressure tests while the third
> came tumbling down in April because of an issue that CEO Elon Musk
> later attributed to leaky valves. And while the Starship SN4 prototype
> survived a longer battery of trials than its predecessors, it looks
> like the series will have to wait on that round of flight tests until
> at least SN5—which the company has purportedly already begun
> assembling.
>
>
>
> *
>
> begin 644 SpaceX's Starship Prototype Explodes.avi
> Attachment decoded: SpaceX's Starship Prototype Explodes.avi
> `
> end
>
>
You learn more from your failures
than your successes.........