For Spacex, 2025 should have been the best year so far.
Elon Musk, founder of the Special Space Company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office, and President Trump has supported his vision of Send humans to Mars.
But so far, it was not a great year for the missile company. The car, which is essential for Mars, and the giant Sarf Spesx missiles, launched twice this year, and twice, it was detonated.
The last explosion occurred on Thursday during the eighth Starship test, less than two months after the seventh test trip in space. Once again, the debris shower, which led to a new headache for travelers throughout Florida and the Caribbean Sea region who did not attack the “fall of falling space” as a reason for delay in flying. None of the accident was injured.
The explosions are not necessarily failures for a company that has flourished on a mentality from “launching, breaking, repairing, and release again.” With innovations such as landing and reusing missile reinforcements, Spacex cut the cost of sending things to space. Starship, which is designed to be fully reusable, has the ability to increase missile action again.
But these two explosions in the stars were a step back in the process of developing Spacex, because flights were not even able to repeat the successes of previous test flights, and it may show that the company’s engineers are not wronged like the company’s fans at times to think.
A former NASA, a former official in NASA, who is now a professor of engineering practice at Bordeaux University, and the chief of innovation and strategy employees, an engineering company, the United States Company, Space Force, and some space competitors, said, “
The delays can also have repercussions on NASA, which rented Spacex to use a version of Starship to astronauts on the moon as soon as that 2027 through Artemis III a task.
The two centers, who failed less than 10 minutes after takeoff, were an upgraded design. Healing, they were less successful than an old version of the spacecraft that flew last year. Three previous experimental trips succeeded in the middle of the road around the world, and it escaped the return of the air on the Indian Ocean, then simulating the landing in the waters off the western coast of Australia.
In addition, the failure of the seventh and eighth flights occurred in almost the same part of the flight, and it appears that both of them arise near the spacecraft engines in the second stage. This indicates that Spacex did not succeed in diagnosing and solving the problem. It can indicate a large design defect in the natural vehicle.
This also means that Spacex has not yet been able to test updated aspects of updated particles, including the smaller and topical front panels used to direct the spacecraft while falling into the air while entering. Spacex also planned a PEZ test to the Starlink satellite.
Starship is the most powerful rocket created essential for Mr. Musk’s dreams in building human settlements on Mars. The repeated rhythm of Starship is very important for the most urgent Spacex plans to earn money.
The next generation of satellites for Starlink online service is larger and heavier. The huge charging space in the upper stage in Starship would allow the company to renew the constellation of thousands of satellites that revolve around orbits quickly and at a cost.
The failure of the flight test also means that the SPACEX development program was unable to move to other goals.
Spacex needs to prove that the instant vehicle can remain in orbit for a long period of time, then leak from orbit and return to the launch site to be caught by mechanical weapons on the launch tower. (The high heavy support stage, which does not go to orbit, has succeeded in it three times). The company also needs to show that it can launch many developmental compounds in the fast caliphate.
More importantly, it needs to show that it can move liquid oxygen fans from one vehicle to another. This procedure is the key to allowing the tournament to accumulate enough fuel to go to the moon or Mars.
Consequently, the oral vehicle that is to reach the moon in the Earth’s orbit should remain where the other mouths are launched to bring the defendants to fill the Lunar Starship tanks.
Mr. Musk confirmed that the transfer of the motivation is a direct exercise. But pumping this amount of liquid that has never been attempted to try a quick liquid during the booth in the orbit, and no one knows after the number of Starship – perhaps up to 20 – there will be a need for the mission of one moon.
“We do not know how the tank will perform,” Amit Kashtria, Deputy Assistant NASA for the NASA Moon Program to March. “We are just no.”
At that time, Mr. Kshatriya said that NASA will learn it soon, because it is expected that the long -term version of Starship will be launched in the spring. Then SpaceX can also test its ability to run models in orbit at one time and determine the efficiency that the defendants can move between a spacecraft.
These results, in turn, will help NASA collect a realistic table for Artemis III.
“We are going to really good understanding of this problem,” said Mr. Kashtria. “But I cannot schedule this innovation. There is no way for.”
But the timeline of Mr. Kshatriya assumed that there would be no large setbacks. With the Federal Aviation Administration to end until Spacex ends to investigate flight 8, the “Form” championship may be delayed in the middle of the year, or longer.
Mr. Dumbacher believes that Spacex will be able to solve the technical challenges formed by the vehicle. He said: “I have no doubt that they will receive it, and they will fly again and get things.” “I just don’t know how long it will take them to do this.”
in Certificate of the House of Representatives Committee last monthMr. Dumbacher said, with many flights, was very large and very complicated to meet the current target date of 2027 for Artemis III, or even in 2030, when China plans to land on astronauts on the moon.
Mr. Dumbacher suggested that NASA turns into a smaller and simpler land to improve the opportunities that NASA can win in the moon race in the twenty -first century with China. Since Spacex is supposed to make a demonstration for the Starship Lander championship without any astronauts on board before Artemis III, a successful astronaut on the moon using Starship may require up to 40 launching operations.
He did not look at the chances of these successful releases. “I need a significant decrease in the number of launch operations.” “I need to go simple.”
