Tycoon and owner SpaceX, Elon Muskshared in his social networks a couple of photos of takeoff starshipunmanned missile technology company.

missile, considered The most powerful in history, he exploded this Thursday in the sky of Texas (USA) a few minutes after takeoff. However, the tech company called the launch “successful.” Even Musk congratulated the SpaceX team and assured that, despite the explosion, this first launch attempt would allow for better learning.

big rocket Starship’s engines shut down several times during an ascent that took him 39 kilometers above the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX said in a brief online update message that the Starship took off from its Gulf Coast base called Starbase at 8:33 a.m. local time (7:33 – Mexico Central Time –) “Successful launch from an orbital launch pad for the first time”.

SpaceX, which elaborates that today’s takeoff was “the highest of any spacecraft to date,” elaborates that the rocket “experienced multiple engine shutdowns during flight testinglost altitude and started spinning,” without giving further details.

“In tests like this, success depends on what we learn, and today we learned a lot about the car and ground systems that help us improve future Starship flights“, concludes the statement.

“Teams will continue to analyze the data and work on our next flight test,” Spacex elaborated on its Twitter account, adding that “Starship survives rapid unplanned disassembly before the separation of the stage, ”without going into details and without specifying whether this was caused by engineers.

Shortly after the explosion, Musk foresaw that the next attempt could be made in a few months.

Both the company and the experts congratulated themselves on the first attempt with consequences, and the specialized media space.com In one of his reports, he pointed out that company engineers staged an explosion when multiple engine failures are detected.

Today’s test is considered a very important step for Starship, which took off on its second attempt – after Monday’s failure – to test a large rocket. designed to deliver people into low Earth orbitMoon and Mars, which consists of a ship (Starship) and a launch vehicle (Super Heavy Rocket).

This Thursday’s challenge received countless congratulations such as Bill Nelson, NASA Administratorwhich US agency SpaceX is working for, which tweeted: “Congratulations to SpaceX on the first comprehensive Starship flight test.”

“Every great achievement in history a certain level of settlement risk is requiredbecause with great risk comes great reward,” he stressed.

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Billionaire Hassan Sajwani from the United Arab Emirates, one of the richest people in the world thanks to DAMAC, said the move made Starship a hope “to become an interplanetary species.”

Although in the first moments of takeoff it seemed that everything was going according to plan, the rocket began to rotate around its axis and instead of separatingas planned on the first stage of the flight, the ship exploded and, without making a 90-minute flight, splashed down near Hawaii.

The height of the huge rocket and the ship is 120 meters, the diameter is 9 meters and can carry 100 to 150 metric tons of cargowith the possibility of increasing up to 250 tons.

(According to information from EFE)