SpaceX's Starship completes its most successful test yet, but 'disappears' on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere
Space travel company SpaceX has completed its most successful test yet of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket.
But while the unmanned rocket completed its flight, it "disappeared" upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, foreign media write, Telegraph reports.
Thursday's test flight was the third carried out by Starship rockets, ahead of planned missions with the US space agency NASA to send astronauts to the Moon.
Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on today's successful Starship flight test! → https://t.co/VcyTlGvGqY pic.twitter.com/GaDsCPbbVu
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024
SpaceX, a company founded and owned by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, live-streamed the latest Starship experiment, noting that it flew farther and faster than in the previous two tests.
However, as the rocket returned to Earth, it lost communication with SpaceX engineers.
Starship is coasting in space pic.twitter.com/ZFUXMUkufW
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024
The live broadcast was abruptly cut off, and SpaceX later reported that the rocket did not survive the final stage of its flight.
Liftoff of Starship! pic.twitter.com/FaNcasuKaq
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024
It was expected to "explode" in the Indian Ocean.
On Musk's X social media platform, NASA chief Bill Nelson called the event "a successful test flight."
Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma pic.twitter.com/HEQX4eEHWH
- SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024
"Together, we are taking giant steps to return humanity to the Moon — then look ahead to Mars," he wrote.
Starship will take humanity to Mars pic.twitter.com/BMBNI2mMKF
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2024
Musk also celebrated the X test flight, writing: "Starship will take humanity to Mars."
Starship, while still in the testing stages, is considered a breakthrough in rocket technology, as the largest and most powerful rocket of its kind. /Telegraph/
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