Musk wrote that it seems that the COPV nitrogen failed below the evidence pressure in conditions that should not damage the tank. “If further investigation confirms that this happened, for the first time in this project,” Musk added.
Collecting pieces
Earlier, Wednesday, just a few hours before the explosion of the tardy night in Starbase, an advisor issued by the Federal Aviation Administration showed that SpaceX set on June 29 as the initial release date of the next test flight of the ship’s ship. This will not happen now and no one can guess when SpaceX will have another ship’s ship ready for flying.
Massey’s test place, named after the range of weapons, which once occupied the property, is on a corner in the Rio Grande River, just a few hundred feet from the Mexican border. The test site is the only place where SpaceX can place ships ships through evidence and stagnant fire tests before announcing that the rockets are ready for flying.
The scope of damage to ground equipment in Massey was not immediately clear, so it is too early to say how long the test space will be outside the commission. For now, however, the explosion leaves SpaceX without facilities for supporting tests before flight on the ship.
The films set below come from nasaspaceflight.com and labpadre, showing many starship blast angles.
The explosion in Massey’s is a reminder of the rocky SpaceX path to get a spacecraft to this point in its development. In 2020 and 2021, SpaceX lost several prototypes of spacecraft during problems during ground tests and flights. Visual ship 36 in the fire, which returns to previous explosions, along with Fire Fall of the Falcon 9 rocket In its incidence in 2016 in circumstances similar to the incident on Wednesday evening.
Spacex has now released nine full -fledged ship vessels from April 2023, and before the explosion the company was hoping to start the 10th flight this month. Starship requirements were terrible this year, and the three latest test flights of the rockets ended prematurely. These failures took place triumphant 2024, when Spacex made clear progress in each subsequent test ship of the ship, whose culmination is the first half of the massive super massive rocket amplifier with giant robot arms at the start tower.
Arranged together, a super -heavy amplifier scene and space ship at a higher level with a height of over 400 feet, creating the largest rocket ever built. SpaceX flew again a super massive amplifier, and the company designed Starship so that it could also be recovered and reusable.
After last year’s achievements, SpaceX seemed to be on the right track to a full orbital flight, attempts to catch and recover the ship’s ship and Important demonstration of refueling in space In 2025, the refueling demo officially fell until 2026 and it is doubtful whether SpaceX will make enough progress in the coming months to try to recover the ship before the end of this year.
Ambition meets reality
SpaceX debuted by an improved ship’s ship called version 2 or block 2 during a test flight in January. Since then, it was one failure.
The novel ship’s ship design is slightly higher than the Starship version, which SpaceX flew in 2023 and 2024. It has an improved heat shield to better withstand the extreme warmth of the atmospheric input. SpaceX also installed a novel fuel line system for steering methane fuel to the ship’s rapto engines, and an improved drive avionics module controlling vehicle valves and reading sensors.