In the end it didn’t quite work out again: About an hour after the launch, the engineers from Elon Musk’s rocket company Space-X made contact with the rocket company Starship lost. The spacecraft was already in the Earth’s atmosphere during its landing approach; live images showed parts of the heat shield glowing. Shortly before landing in the Indian Ocean, contact was lost. The Starship was last located 65 kilometers above the earth. “We lost the ship,” said a Space X employee in the live stream. Space-X must now investigate the cause.
According to a company spokeswoman, the flight had gone smoothly until then. At 2:25 p.m. Central European Time, the 5,000-ton, 120-meter-long steel colossus lifted off from the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas, and the upper stage reached Earth orbit after a few minutes. The lower stage sank into the sea.
Space-X had planned a series of new tests for this third flight: As planned, the engineers were able to test the loading bay just twelve minutes after takeoff Starship open and close again later. This is a prerequisite for satellites to be placed in orbit in the future. It was also planned to transfer fuel from tank to tank.
In any case, Space-X will now evaluate the data and schedule the fourth test flight in the medium term. So far everyone is Starshiprocket got further than the previous one. And Elon Musk reacted to