SpaceX engineers have successfully launched the transportation system that can reuse Starship into the space, while completing a number of missile tests. About this report TechCrunch.
According to journalists, a successful beginning took place after a year of failure. The missile returns from the tenth test flight, held early in the morning of August 27. The largest and strongest spatial rocket accelerator has created a new operation involving disconnecting the main Raptor engines and switching to backup.
Group engineers have also tested the survival of individual ingredients. Therefore, the influence of incredible temperatures in the atmosphere entrance has created good conditions to check the heat shield. After the train orbit, it also opened the cargo compartment and unloaded 8 mackets of Starlink V3 satellites. In short, SpaceX experts saw a soft landing at the right point in the Indian Ocean, although after the leading lead.
This is a big victory for SpaceX, which has repeatedly lost the Starship accelerator due to a series of technical failures during the flight, the authors of the media emphasized.
At the same time, they emphasized that in order to achieve the company's actual reusing ability will have to conduct more tests.
On the morning of August 26, SpaceX canceled the second consecutive Starship. After that, the beginning of the missile was postponed due to weather conditions.