Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV Actuars having failed below his proof pressure, under conditions which should not have damaged the tank. “If a more in -depth investigation confirms that this is what happened, this is the first time for this design,” helped Musk.
Pick up the parts
Earlier Wednesday, a few hours before the end of evening explosion at Starbase, an opinion published by the Federal Aviation Administration showed that SpaceX had set on June 29 as an attempted launch date for the next Starship test flight. It will not happen now, and it is anyone who guesses where a space space will have another ship ready to fly.
The Massey test site, named after a range of firearms that formerly occupied the property, is located on Bend in the Rio Grande river, a few hundred meters from the Mexican border. The test site is currently the only place where SpaceX can place the vessel vessels thanks to static evidence and fire tests before declaring that the rockets are ready to fly.
The extent of damage to ground equipment at Massey was not clear, so it is too early to say how long the test site will be out of service. For the moment, however, the explosion leaves SpaceX without an installation to support the outdoor tests on the spaceships.
The videos integrated below like Nasasspaceflight.com and Labpadre, showing several angles of the Starship explosion.
Massey’s explosion is a reminder of the rocky path of SpaceX to obtain the vessel so in its development. In 2020 and 2021, SpaceX lost several starship prototypes because of problems during ground and flight tests. The visual of Ship 36 which rises in flames begins again to these previous explosions, as well as the Ardent disappearance of a Falcon 9 rocket On its launching ramp in 2016 in circumstances similar to the incident on Wednesday evening.
SpaceX has now launched nine large-scale starship rockets since April 2023, and before the explosion, the company hoped to launch the 10th test flight later this month. The history of stars have been awful so far this year, the three most recent flights of the Rocket ending prematurely. These reverse followed up to Triumting 2024, when SpaceX clearly progressed on each suborbital flight of subsequent subsequent vessels, culminating in the first capture of the super heavy furniture of the rocket with giant robotic arms on the launch ramp tower.
Stacked, the super heavy booster scene and the upper stage of starship are more than 400 feet high, creating the largest rocket ever built. SpaceX has already sank a reused super heavy booster, and the company has designed Starship ITELF to be recoverable and also reusable.
After last year’s achievements, SpaceX seemed to be on the right track for a complete orbital flight, an altar to catch and recover the vessel itself, and a Disassembly demonstration in the important spice In 2025. The refueling demo was unofficial in 2026, and it is questionable when SpaceX will make enough progress in the coming months of the tent recovery of a ship before the end of this year.
Ambition meets reality
SpaceX made its debut on an improved starship design, called version 2 or block 2, on a trial flight in Janogy. It has been a setback after the others since then.
The new starship design is slightly larger than the Starship version that SpaceX stolen in 2023 and 2024 SpaceX also installed a new fuel supply line system to transport methane fuel to the raptor engines of the ship, and an improved propulsion aircraft module controlling valves and vehicle reading sensors.
