In its ninth test flight, the Spacex Starship rocket, the Aerospace Company of Magnate Elon Musk, suffered on Tuesday a “rapid unforeseen disassembly” about an hour after taking off from southern Texas (USA) and exploded for the third time. The company on the social network X indicated. The rocket took off at 7:37 PM local time (23:30 GMT) from Starbase, the recently appointed base near Brownsville, on the border with Mexico, but around 20:32 the contact was lost, the head of Spacex communication, Dan Huot.Media was lost. “leaks” of fuel, which caused the “loss of altitude control”, necessary to orient; In addition, he failed to open a gate through which simulated satellites were going to be released. He exploded and scattered remains over the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Caribbean. By its part, Musk, in X, highlighted “a great improvement with respect to the last flight” and confirmed that “the escapes (fuel) caused the loss of pressure of the main tank”, which affected the flight and the return maneuver will launch one “every 3 or 4 weeks”. These statements are in tune with the announcement of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the USA Human. Suborbital, the propeller, equipped with 33 Raptor engines, rotated “in a controlled direction” to return to the earth with a “higher angle of attack” that requires less fuel. With information from EFE agency.
