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The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) has completed its investigating into SpaceX ’s second Starship trajectory , which direct space in November last year andended with mid - flight explosionsof the first - stage Super Heavy booster and the upper - degree Starship space vehicle .
The Elon Musk - lead spacefaring company is now awaiting approval to launch the spaceship — the most powerful rocket salad ever to fly — on its third test flight , with the prospect that SpaceX could get the green luminousness some fourth dimension next month , with the rocket taking to the sky again a light while later .
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“ SpaceX identify , and the FAA accepts , the root causes and 17 corrective action document in SpaceX ’s mishap paper , ” the FAA said in a statement released on Monday . “ Prior to the next launching , SpaceX must follow through all corrective actions and receive a license modification from the FAA that cover all safety , environmental , and other applicable regulatory requirements . ”
Ina poston its website on Monday , SpaceX shared some details regarding its analysis of November ’s flight of steps , noting that it was the first Starship test to attain microscope stage interval after April ’s first trial flight fail just a few minute of arc after liftoff .
SpaceX said the most potential root causa for the booster RUD was “ filter blockage where liquified atomic number 8 is supplied to the railway locomotive , leading to a passing of inlet press in engine oxidizer turbopumps that eventually resulted in one locomotive engine failing in a elbow room that resulted in departure of the vehicle . ”
It said that to prevent this from chance again , it ’s made ironware modification inside the booster amplifier oxidizer army tank to ameliorate propelling filtration capabilities and also refined operations to increase dependableness .
In the same mental testing flight , the Starship ballistic capsule continued on its journeying until a leak of liquid oxygen propellant make “ a burning event and subsequent ardor that contribute to a loss of communication between the space vehicle ’s flying calculator , ” which result in the loss of the vehicle concisely after . SpaceX said it has since made hardware changes to better leak reduction and fire protection .
“ More Starships are ready to aviate , ” the company say as it awaits launching permission from the FAA .
SpaceX hopes to habituate its next - generation heavy - lift rocket for freight and crowd missionary work to the synodic month in the good future , and , looking further ahead , for alike flights to Mars , too .
