Starship, which has the title of the world’s largest and most powerful space rocket developed by the US space transportation company SpaceX, was successfully launched from the Starbase area in Texas, USA, at 16.35 GMT for its 3rd test flight. Approximately 3 minutes into the flight, the first stage booster, known as Super Heavy, successfully separated from the upper stage Starship. Starship managed to go into orbit for the first time.
In today’s flight, called Integrated Flight Test-3, Starship passed tests to open a payload bay hatch that will be used to place Starlink satellites into orbit and restart an engine in the space environment.
COMMUNICATION WAS BROUGHT DURING ENTRY INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
The first stage booster Super Heavy crashed in the Gulf of Mexico following separation. Communication with Starship, which was expected to land in the Indian Ocean, was lost during its re-entry into the atmosphere. SpaceX announced that they assessed that Starship exploded during its entry into the atmosphere.
Starship exploded in the air approximately 2.5 minutes after launch in its second test flight in November last year, and in its first test flight in April, it exploded approximately 4 minutes after launch due to a malfunction in the engines and fell into the Gulf of Mexico.
Starship is 30 meters wide and approximately 400 meters high. SpaceX designed the rocket with the goal of taking humans to Mars and the moon. (UAV)
