Shortly after taking off on Thursday, the huge Starship Spacex spacecraft exploded in space and its debris crossed the skies of Florida and Bahamas.
Spacex's huge Starship spacecraft exploded in space on Thursday minutes after taking off from Texas, which led to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, in English) to interrupt air traffic in Florida areas.
Several videos on social networks showed burning debris that crossed the skies of sunset near South Florida and the Bahamas, after Starship exploded in space shortly after he began to turn without control with the motors off, showed a live transmission of Spacex of the mission.
The failure of the eighth test of the starship occurs just over a month after the seventh also ended in an explosive failure. The consecutive mishaps happened in the early stages of the mission that Spacex has easily overcome previously, in a setback for a program that Musk had tried to accelerate this year.
The 123 -meter rocket system is essential for Musk's plan to send human beings to Mars as soon as in the late decade.
The Federal Aviation Government briefly issued standing on land at the airports of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando due to “space launch waste.” He said he had opened an investigation into the incident.
The rocket took off at 6:30 p.m. The Super Heavy rocket of the first stage flew back to Earth as planned and was successful in the air by a Spacex crane.
But minutes later, the live transmission of Spacex showed the upper part of the starship turning in space, while a visualization of the rocket engines showed several off -off engines. Then the company said it had lost contact with the ship and the announcers related it to the previous flight.
The FAA, which regulates private rocket launches, said his research would ask Spacex to examine the cause of the ruling and get the approval of the agency before Starship can fly again.
Starship intended to perform almost a complete orbit around the Earth and resent on the Indian Ocean for amering, simulating a landing sequence that Spacex wants to carry out on the ground as the next key phase of the development of the rocket.