The SpeusX spacecraft, which is owned by billionaire Eileon Musk, lost control and returned to Earth, 30 minutes after the start of its ninth experimental journey.
The “Starsp” spacecraft from Texas launched on the ninth uninhabited experimental flight after the previous two attempts ended with failure.
Starsp is a future spacecraft carrying Elon Musk’s ambitions to travel to various planets.
The two -stage spacecraft, and the vehicle on board the “Starchip” missile installed on a huge missile bush “SpaceX Super Hevi”, started at about (2330 GMT) from the company’s “Starbis” launch site on the coast of the Gulf of Texas near Bronzville.
SpaceX also launched a Starchip system with a “Super Hevi” missile -bushing missile enhancement for the first time, with the aim of proving its ability to reuse. In the first stage, Al -Muzdar, which is 71 meters long, will not try to return to the launch platform, but will target the Gulf of Mexico for a controlled decline.
Just as expected, the 71 -meter -long missile missile separated from the Starsip vehicle in its upper phase a few minutes after the launch, and returned to the ground.
But the Space X monitors lost contact with the supporter while landing before it drowned in the sea, rather than the controlled landing, as the company planned.
In its upper phase, the Starsheep vehicle continued to climb into space, and reached its semi -tropical path planned about nine minutes after the start of the trip.
The plans were to complete the Starsp trial, which takes less than 90 minutes, with a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean.
But after about half an hour of launch, SpaceX announced that its journey team lost control of Starsp, which led to the rotation of the vehicle as it continues to go towards the atmosphere.
“We will not prepare to return as we wanted,” said a commentator from SpaceX during the live broadcast. “Our chances of reaching the Earth are very small,” he added.
The federal regulatory authorities gave SpaceX a license to the most recent attempt to fly the vehicle Starsp just four days ago, which ended an investigation into an accident that led to the suspension of Starsp for about two months.
This task comes in the wake of two previous exams in January, during which two explosions occurred at high altitudes, causing a large amount of debris over the Caribbean.
The huge vehicle exploded during its flights in the two experiments, forcing the authorities to divert the paths of some aircraft or even delay the take -off.
The American authorities also ordered the “SpaceX” to suspend “Starsp” flights and conduct investigations into the two incidents.
In 2023, a number of associations filed a complaint against the American authorities, accusing them of a bad evaluation of the impact of these experiments on the environment, knowing that the company’s space base in Texas is located near protected natural areas.
Despite these criticisms, the US Federal Aviation Administration agreed in early May to an increase in the launch rate from five flights to 25 trips per year, after a process that lasted for years and assessments of the environmental impact.
