Starship - finally a successful landing

SpaceX - Elon Musk's company after a test flight at an altitude of ten kilometers from the fifth attempt successfully landed a prototype of a large Starship SN15 rocket. After landing, a fuel fire occurred, which was localized. This is a big milestone in the SpaceX space program, which is supposed to take people to the Moon and Mars in the future with the help of the next versions of the Starship rocket.

Previous flight tests and Starship landing ended with car bombings. This time, the forty-three-meter high rocket, also known as the ship, was launched from the SpaceX complex in South Texas and landed at the spaceport after a six minute flight. A small fire after landing was caused, according to information services, by a methane leak.

On a pilot project Starship building plan based manned lunar landerMuska won the $2,9 billion construction contract. The two losers in this competition are Blue Origin LLC and Leidos Holdings Inc. Jeff Bezos filed formal protests in connection with the award of the contract by the agency. SpaceX. According to them, this was due to a lack of funds to hire more than one contractor. according to the still current plan, it was supposed to take place in 2024, so the tests of Starship should have been completed with the finished version of the ship by 2023.

Source: bit.ly

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