The US Federal Civil Aviation Department requires SpaceX to investigate the second consecutive loss of the Starship ship, which occurred in the eighth flight tests of the same reusable transportation system. About this report Release Spacenews.
After starting Starship, today, March 7, at 02:30 Moscow from the Boka-chika training ground in Texas (United States) and the success of the steps, the super heavy accelerator returned to cosmodrom, caught by a mechanical hand. Therefore, SpaceX has managed to maintain the lower phase of the third system in the last four times.
Meanwhile, eight minutes after the Starship started, separated from the Starship's accelerator, four of the six Raptor engines occurred, then the ship began to spin and explode after a while.
The publication Note that the tasks of the eighth flight tests are largely repeated by the program of Saturday tests and end with a similar part.
Earlier, Spacenews reported that the US Federal Civil Aviation Department allowed the next launch of the Starship reuse. After that, the US regulator noted that studying the cause of the explosion of Starship's second phase, which occurred in the seventh flight tests, was not completed.