To infinity and beyond! SpaceX’s Starship rocket did it, leaving the launch pad this Saturday morning, before the gaze and racing hearts of hundreds of people who watched it in Tamaulipas.
As planned, the launch window opened at 07:00 am this Saturday, November 18, which allowed the rocket, considered one of the largest in the world, to take off seconds later.
From Bagdad Beach, at the mouth of the Rio Grande for Mexico and the Rio Grande for the United States, children and adults gathered to live this moment that brought them closer to the possibility of reaching space.
The lesson of April 2020 was learned3
On April 20, the Starship was launched from the base that exploded 4 minutes later. Some considered this event a failure while Musk’s company pointed out that this is what learning is about.
“Starship’s first flight test provided numerous lessons learned that directly contributed to several upgrades to both the vehicle and ground infrastructure to improve the likelihood of success in future flights,” he said.
Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting second integrated flight test of Starship!
Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation pic.twitter.com/JnCvLAJXPi
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023
He detailed that for this second flight test, a hot stage separation system and a new electronic thrust vector control (TVC) program for Super Heavy Raptor engines were released.
In addition, they installed reinforcements at the base of the platform and a water-cooled steel flame deflector, among many other improvements.
The launch had already been postponed
It was even necessary to postpone the launch yesterday Friday since they announced that a fin on the mega rocket had been changed.
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With this second launch of SpaceX’s Starship, observers in Tamaulipas and around the world may have thought that the takeoff is a great step for humanity.
Note published in El Sol de Tampico
2023-11-18 14:47:38
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