Starship's Seventh Test Flight Ends in Failure

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During the seventh test of the SpaceX Starship rocket, the first stage of the reusable Super Heavy launch vehicle successfully returned to the test site, while the rest burned up in the atmosphere. The company announced a partial failure of another test of the spacecraft.

The wreckage fell into the Atlantic Ocean near the Caribbean Sea, with several passenger planes reportedly having to change their course to avoid the burning remains of Starship and two rocket stages.



Starship's Seventh Test Flight Ends in Failure

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk commented on the situation and named the probable reason for the unsuccessful launch.

Preliminary data indicate that an oxygen/methane leak occurred in the cavity above the ship's engine firewall, which was large enough to create pressure that exceeded the capacity of the bleed hole.

– the entrepreneur said.




The ship lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase in Boca Chica, southeast Texas, on Thursday, January 16, at 17 p.m. ET (Friday, January 00, at 17 a.m. Moscow time). The mission was designed to test the ship's flight with a launch vehicle that could be used for manned missions to the Moon and Mars.
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  1. 0
    17 January 2025 11: 16
    But, from the photos, we will know what the beginning of the apocalypse will look like. Alas.
  2. 0
    18 January 2025 11: 12
    Just a fuel leak, but what spectacular shots!
    I imagine there's already a huge line of people wanting to fly on the SpaceX Starship rocket.
    1. 0
      21 January 2025 09: 59
      Why don't you, my friend, go on a flight against the backdrop of such delight?))) I don't hear a cheerful answer?)))
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        21 January 2025 10: 31
        Thanks for the offer. But only after you, buddy.
        I had some connection with Soviet space and know first-hand about the requirements for reliability and safety.
        Musk's projects are so adventurous that the results were not long in coming.
        You mistook my evil irony for delight.
        Was my answer cheerful enough?
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          21 January 2025 10: 38
          Quite))))
  3. 0
    19 January 2025 09: 28
    We would like to have such "failures".
    1. 0
      21 January 2025 09: 58
      Well, no))) I don't agree. There should be fewer such failures, including in the Russian Federation.