Spacex Starship off -control of second straight testing of flight

Spacex’s star ship escaped out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking Second start in a row that the vehicle has fallen into a fatal problem on the way to orbit.

The company launched Starship using its super heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the flight before the problem. The ship successfully split and headed for space as the booster returned to the start of the company in Texas where it was caught For the third time from the start tower.

But at about eight minutes and nine seconds in the flight, the spacex broadcast has shown that Starship was losing multiple Raptor engines on the vehicle. On board footage showed that the ship began a spiral end above the ocean.

“We just saw some engines come out, it seems that we are losing control of the ship’s attitude,” said SpaceX Communications Dan Huot manager in the broadcast. “We have lost contact with the ship at this point.”

Staff Posted on social media has shown that the ship is falling apart over the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic A a few minutes laterS The company published Of X, that “immediately began to coordinate with safety employees to apply pre -planned emergency responses.”

The leading explosions of the side With its so -called. The Government Management MinistryS This included him to have employees of the Federal Aviation Administration, which runs SpaceX flights.

Spacex hoped to unleash four dummy versions of his Starlink companions during a test flight on Thursday, a step towards the goal of using Starship for commercial missions. The company deliberately develops a star ship by performing test flights in a quick order and learning from the things that go right and wrong.

But the failure on Thursday comes just a few weeks after Seventh testWho saw that Starship breaks down a spectacular way over the Turks & Caicos Islands, which made the FAA divert a number of flights in this airspace.

SpaceX did what is known as an “abuse investigation” for this failure. The company The specified fuel expires inside Starship, which caused fires and eclipse communications with the ship before self -destructs.

Prior to this test flight, SpaceX said it had made improvements to the lines that send fuel to Starship engines and changed the fuel temperature. He also added additional openings and a “new cleansing system” to hedge against any leaks.

At some of his previous test flights, SpaceX saw that his star ship was falling apart as he tried to enter the Earth’s atmosphere again. The company unfolded changes to the seventh test flight that had to help him learn how to better prepare the ship to survive on re-entry.

“With flight 8 we are focused on finding Starship restrictions in the real world so that we can prepare ourselves ultimately return Starship to the start and catch it,” the company wrote On the X on Thursday.