SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout

SpaceX D The Starship Explosion on Monday was brought through a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks – the company said a problem was resolved before an eighth test aircraft that could happen early Friday.

The SpaceFlight Agency is still waiting to stop the “accident investigating” in the explosion for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), or specially approved the SpaceX to perform the flight during the investigation.

This is significantly, for the first time, SpaceX has been subjected to an accident, while CEO Elon Mask is working within the US government, its so -called government skills workers are actively changing the FAA. The company did not immediately respond to any request for commenting.

The January Starship test of SpaceX started quite finely. The company was hoping to test several upgrades in the Super Heavy Booster, Launch-and-Catch Tower and Starship. The heavy-lift rocket system was launched without any problems and left for space, the booster finally separated and returned to Texas ground Where it was caught in the towerThe

The problems started about two minutes after the starship was burning its own rocket engines for the orbit. The company wrote a Blog post This is “a flash of the vehicle’s Affat section near one of the Rapter Vacuum Engine.” According to SpaceX, the ship began to increase the ship -driven pressure.

Another flash was seen two minutes later and SpaceX said the “sustainable fire” started in that section of the starship due to the leaks. As a result of the fire “all except for a starship engine to implement the controlled shut -down sequences and finally damage contact with the ship.”

SpaceX says these leaks were probably due to vibrations that the company expected from the test, “causing the pressure on the hardware on the propulsion system.” The automatic in-flight abort system finally triggers the destruction of the ship by following the blackout of fire and communication.

This explosion led to a spectacular display on the Turkish and Kaikos Islands and as a result the FAA was Several flight diverting To avoid any danger. SpaceX has claimed that all the ruins of Starship “pre-planned debris reacts down the reaction”-it is a safe-area that it usually discusses before the aircraft with government agencies. Residents are posting pictures of the ruins The beach was washed away and at least one car was hitObtain little damage.

SpaceX says it has changed the line that transmits fuel to the starship engines, tweets the temperature of the propellant and added the additional vent to the AFT section “more powerful for leakage” on the question and “a new pure system”.