by SpaceX is preparing for the next test flight of his Starship Megarocket on Monday after a technical problem on the launchpad has forced a delay of 24 hours.
The tenth attempt takes place in an increased test for the most powerful carrier vehicle in the world – central than founder Elon Musk’s dream to colonize Mars, and the plans of NASA to return astronauts to the moon – after a number of explosive mistakes that have started to increase doubts about his viability.
The stainless steel giant, which is 403 feet, is scheduled to take off from the company of the company in South Texas at 6:30 p.m. local time (2330 GMT).
The attempt on Sunday was scrubbed due to a soil system, a relatively routine problem in space flight and generally not too concern.
The mission aims to set the upper stage – finally to wear crew and freight – through structural stress tests, while it flies halfway around the world before it sprays into the Indian ocean.
SpaceX also tries out new thermal shield materials and tries to use Mock Starlink satellites as a freight. In contrast to the recent attempts, the “super heavy” booster is not grasped by the giant “Chopstick” of the starting tower, but will strive for a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company’s aggressive approach “almost almost” almost “Learn was attributed to giving it a dominant lead in the space start through his Falcon Rocket family.
The dragon capsules are the only American space vehicles that drive astronauts to the international space station, while Starlink has become a geopolitical capital.
However, concern is whether these successes will lead to spaceships, a rocket that is not before. The upper stage – also called Starship – has exploded in all three test flights 2025.
Two scattered ruins over the Caribbean islands, while the third broke apart after reaching the square. In June, another upper stage blew up during a ground “static fire” test.
“I think this mission gives a lot of pressure,” said Dallas Kasaboski, a space analyst for the consulting company Analysys Mason, AFP. “We had so many tests and it has not proven reliably – the successes have not exceeded the failures.”
Even if the tenth flight is successful, there are impressive challenges, including the detection of the spaceships, with a super-cool fuel, can be refueled in orbit-a unprecedented performance, but a prerequisite for depth missions.
Delays could go through the artemis program of the NASA, which should send us back to the moon with a modified version of the Starship by mid-2027.
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