Fourth failure in a row for SpaceX: Wednesday, June 18, the rocket exploded in the Starship during her shot in Texas. While Elon Musk ignores criticism, this setback questions the ability of his company SpaceX to honor his contract with 4 billion US dollars at NASA.
Does Elon Musk see the space that escapes him after his failed trip to politics? He can boast of his “success” every time a Sternhip Rockets explodes, this time the founder of SpaceX jokes: “Only a scratch”, with regard to the extraordinary explosion of his launcher in Boca Chica (Texas), Wednesday, June 18, is the fourth spatial failure of the billionaire in a row.
What happened? While the 123 -meter -high machine was placed on the shooting step for a number of tests, a huge cloud of smoke appears and the rocket is lit without anyone knowing why.
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Fortunately for the richest man in the world, the prototype was empty. There was no human or expensive load on board.
Nevertheless, this new fiasco arrives at the worst moment, while Elon Musk is trying to restore his coat of arms after his premature departure of the United States government. Cnn. And also sends a very bad signal for the future of space research.
Quisilded planets
You should know that SpaceX is developing two types of rockets: the first only sends satellites. The second should transport the crews – which should fly away for the moon by 2027, then in a few years on Mars. It is exactly the second model that exploded in the test phase.
The billionaire has always argued that failures in the test and development phase do not specify future disasters.
The HIC is that Elon Musk has built up a juicy partnership with NASA to make the spaceship the official equipment supplier of the space program. The American agency therefore pays SpaceX for this mission to around 4 billion US dollars.
This last incident is not without the concerns of some of the ability of SpaceX to respect his contract without two years to achieve this.