Elon Musk announced the date of the fifth launch of Starship
SpaceX’s Starship has completed four launches so far. Firstly, Super Heavy was never separated from Starship. Operation failed, missile It began to spin uncontrollably and self-destructed. after four minutes of flight. By then, 8 of the Raptor’s 33 engines had stopped working.
During the second, the two-stage separation system worked, but the flight did not last 9 minutes. After separation, Super Heavy had to fire 13 of its engines to continue its flight and make a controlled landing in the Gulf of Mexico.
However, several of these engines failed Until “the engine failed energetically, which quickly led to the rapid unscheduled disintegration of the launch vehicle. The ship disintegrated more than three and a half minutes after launch at an altitude of 90 km above the Gulf of Mexico,” SpaceX explained.
Third, finally completed the planned trip to almost one orbit around the planet. Despite this, he did not survive the harsh conditions of his return to Earth. Something that got the fourth serve.
Super heavy managed to land for the first time. The fuel was successfully stabilized and did not have problems with oxygen supply to the engines, as happened twice due to clogged filters.
Once this was overcome, Elon Musk He was already gearing up for the fifth inning. that, as he stated through his official X account, will take place at the end of July. One of the purposes of all this is to use the Starship for take us back to the moon through the Artemis II mission.
Mehazilla, the great protagonist
One of the new features of this fifth flight is the presence of Mechazilla, giant rocket catching machine and whose structure must support the starship during its return landing, which requires great precision and difficulty.
In the previous launch, Super Heavy managed to land in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean. However, We now intend to land on land.. Mechazilla will be responsible for catching the rocket on descent, returning it to the platform and installing a new first stage.