On the evening of February 2, Kiev time, the ninth test sample of the Starship spacecraft of the American company SpaceX made a test suborbital flight to an altitude of 10 km, after which it returned to the launch point in an original way. However, when landing, he could not slow down and crashed.
Prior to this, “Starship” made a similar flight only once: on December 9, 2020, the SN8 sample successfully completed all tasks, except for landing.
The news is supplemented The final version of the reusable Starship spacecraft, together with the SuperHeavy stage, will be about 120 m high, 9 m in diameter, with a launch mass of up to 5000 tons. They want to bring the carrying capacity to 150 tons into low-earth orbit. Case material – alloy 304L stainless steel. It is designed for both close (from one point of the Earth to another) and long-distance flights into space, including the Moon and Mars. It is planned that the ship will be able to take on board up to 100 people. Raptor is a closed cycle liquid engine with full gasification of fuel components (liquid methane and oxygen).
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