The fourth test flight of its Starship rocket also proved to be a failure SpaceX, something that happened with all three previous ones. The prototype exploded, as confirmed by the company’s founder, Elon Musk.
“Something serious happened” at the time of the descent. “We need to find out what it was, after looking at the wreck, later today.” wrote in his post.
Jokingly added: “At least the crater is in a good spot!”
At least the crater is in the right place!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2021
The test launch, from Starbase, near Boca Chica in southern Texas, was originally scheduled for yesterday, Monday, March 29, but was postponed to today because the US Air Force inspector failed to arrive in time.
The SN11 rocket was launched from Starbase base in southern Texas at around 15:00 (Greek time) and began to climb to a height of 10 km. There were some problems with the live broadcast of the test and it stopped during the descent.
In particular, according to eyewitnesses, a loud explosion was heard, about 2.5 minutes after take-off, resulting in the rocket to disappear into a dense cloud of fog and a SpaceX ground controller to report how “Starship 11 will not return, do not wait for it to land. We have lost all the information from this spacecraft “.
“We lost the clock at 5 minutes and 49 seconds,” said SpaceX commentator John Inspracker, referring to the time that has elapsed since the launch.
“One would say we had another exciting test of Starship number 11,” added abruptly and according to what the APE-MPE conveys.
SN11 was the 11th prototype of the Starship rocket, which SpaceX hopes to one day be able to send to the Moon, Mars and even further, fully manned.

It was the fourth prototype to attempt in vain to return to Earth and land vertically. The SN8 and SN9 rockets were fired in December and January, respectively, but crashed and exploded while the SN10, on March 3, managed to land and exploded a few minutes later.
Despite the failures, experts estimate that SpaceX is gathering valuable data that will allow it to accelerate the development of its space program. The goal is to eventually combine Starship with the Super Heavy rocket to create a fully reusable spacecraft. In its final form it will have a height of 120 meters and will be able to carry a load of 100 tons.

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