The Starship of the private space company SpaceX As the largest launch vehicle in the world, it is said to be the future of space travel. Elon Musk wants to use it to go to the moon and later to Mars.
The third test launch of the space shuttle and launch vehicle took place on Thursday afternoon.
The Starship took off at 2:20 p.m. Central European Time. The launch was successful, the space shuttle left the Earth’s atmosphere and reached space.
The test of the spaceship’s outer door was also successful. In the future, satellites will be placed into orbit around the Earth.
However, the re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere failed. The upper rocket stage was destroyed.
Previous attempts also ended in crashes
The rocket was on the first attempt crashed shortly after takeoff and exploded. In the second attempt, the two rocket stages were successfully separated, but they exploded independently of each other.
SpaceX always emphasized that the real goal of the test launches was to collect data.