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The Spacex company lost contact with Starship, its most powerful rocket, during its eighth test flight in southern Texas.
The Spacex Starship ship takes off Starbase, near Boca Chica, Texas, on March 6, 2025, during its eighth test flight. Spacex carried out another release of its powerful Starship rocket on March 6, but quickly lost contact with the ship while roaring the Gulf of Mexico. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
As in the previous test flight in January, Spacex He lost this Thursday contact with the second stage of his Megacohete Starshipan employee of the company announced of billionaire Elon Musk During video transmission.
“We lost contact with the ship. Unfortunately, this also happened last time, “said Dan Huot, specifying that the aerospace firm works” in close collaboration with air traffic control authorities. ”
In January, the explosion of the ship caused a rain of rubble on the Caribbean and Mild material damage on the Turkish and Caicos Islands.
At 6:30 p.m. local time (23:30 GMT) took off the offshot -free take -off -fouched take -off from the Spacex Boca in the Boca Chica, in southern Texas, on the border with Mexico, as was planned after facing delays -originally it was for February 28- and before a great expectation after what happened in January with the explosion of the seventh flight.
The Super Heavy – which drives the ship – and the upper part took off 3 minutes after takeoff after which he returned to his base as planned, In the midst of the public applause that congregated the test for face -to -faceand was caught by the tweezers, which happens for the third time in the total test flights.
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