Launched and disbanded into the air. The reason for her Starship rocket – made in that exploded and disbanded in space a few minutes after its launch yesterday, Thursday (16.01.2025), from Texas. In fact, the dissolution of Space X’s rocket forced passenger plane flights over the Gulf of Mexico to change course to avoid debris, in a setback for the flagship of Elon Musk’s missile programs. CORVERSE SpaceX’s mission control lost contact with upgraded Starship, who carried a cargo of false satellites, but not crew, eight minutes after being launched from the South Texas missile facility at 5:38 p.m. (local time, 00:38 of Friday time Greece). On video they look orange light bullets tearing the sky over Port-o- Prence, the capital of Haiti, leaving behind smoke. “We lost all communication with the ship – this tells us we had an anomaly with the upper floor,” SpaceX Communications Director Dan Huot said, confirming a few minutes later that the rocket was lost. IFT-7 Starship final moments from the perspective of an airplane. MISCELLANEOUS — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) Dozens of commercial flights were forced to land at other airports than those of their destination or changed course to avoid debris, according to FlightRadar24. Departures from airports in Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Florida also recorded 45-minute delays, he added. SpaceX CEO, Mask, posted a video, in which debris is seen crossing the sky, and wrote: “Success is uncertain, but fun is guaranteed!”. Cockpit video captures falling debris near Turks and Caicos after SpaceX’s Starship broke apart during a test flight. Aircraft-tracking website Flightradar24 shared on X that the Starship expansion caused its most tracked flights to be “all aircraft holding or diverging to avoid… — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) The upper floor of Starship, 2 metres taller than the previous versions of the rocket, was a “new generation vessel with significant upgrades”, SpaceX had announced prior to the test. He was to fall controlled into the Indian Ocean about an hour after being launched from Texas. Musk reported that, according to a preliminary estimate, an internal leakage of liquid oxygen increased the pressure and led to the missile breaking down. Success is uncertain, but integration is guaranteed! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) This test was Starship’s seventh since 2023. It joins Musk’s multi-billion-dollar effort to build a rocket capable of carrying people and cargo to Mars, as well as developing large groups of satellites in Earth’s orbit. However, the large rocket thruster, Super Heavy, returned to the launch platform about seven minutes after launch, as planned, slowing down its descent from space using Raptor engines and performing a complicated maneuver to be hooked by giant metal arms that were adapted to a launch tower.
Dozens of planes changed course to avoid debris falling from Elon Musk’s broken Starship
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