by If you buy links to our articles, the future and its syndicate partners can earn a commission.
Credit: Stefanie Waldek
The Starship once again organized a show for Skywatchers – but not the way SpaceX would have liked.
SpaceX started the eighth test flight from Starship on Thursday evening (March 6), the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
The huge booster of the Starship in the first stage, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase about seven minutes after the upswing to get a starting tower. But the 171-foot high upper stage of the Vehicle Als Starship or simply ship-called-shortly afterwards a serious problem and ended up over the Atlantic.
In this opinion, debris that is caused by the spread of the SpaceX Starship Flight 9 rains over the Bahamas, which was captured by journalist Stefanie Waldek. | Credit: Stefanie Waldek
The detonation rained over the area and, among other things, created a dazzling artificial meteor shower for people on the Bahamas and Floridas Space Coast.
Sternship’s Flight 7 started during the January 16. Many people in the Debris Fall zone published a video of the flight 7 debris on X, the social media website, which belonged to the SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk-and the story was repeated on Thursday.
Related: See how SpacEx Starship explodes on the flight test 7 (videos) via the Atlantic Ocean (videos)
One of the people with a seat in the front row for the fire 8 fireworks was Stefanie Waldek, a journalist who is also Space.com employee.
“I was on vacation with my family on the Bahamas, especially in the exumas. I had followed the failure of Starship Flight 8 online, and within a few minutes I discovered the rubble across the sky,” said Waldek Space.com by e -mail.
“I didn’t even think about being under the trajectory of the rocket! Fortunately, I knew exactly what we wanted to see after the Rud of Flight 7 [rapid unscheduled disassembly]And I quickly explained to the people around me that we were neither attacked, nor was the rocket shops, “she added.” The light show was completely quiet – we didn’t hear anything. But the reflection on the water from the burning rubble was pretty pretty! “
An X user with the GENEDOCTOB handle also recorded the Sky show from the Bahamas and published several videos of the event on X. “How do you want to see this over your #catamaran?” One of them was labeled.
In the meantime, photographer Trevor Mahlmann watched Flight 8 from Titusville at the Floridas Space Coast – the home of the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
He conquered the moment when the ship exploded and shared it with us on X.
Related stories:
-SpaceX loses the rocket stage of the Starship rocket again, but catches the start of Flight 8 (video) Giant -Super -Heavy booster, but video).
– Spaceship and Super Heavy explained
– Will the year of the spaceship be in 2025? SpaceX ‘Megarocket grows up.
SpaceX found that it was caused by fuel leaks, which led to continuing fires in the upper shipping ship. It is too early to say what happened on flight 8, but the company is already investigating.
“During the rise of the starship burning, the vehicle experienced a quick unscheduled disassembly and the contact. Our team immediately started with the security officers to implement pre-planned contingency reactions. We will review today’s flight test to better understand the cause of the cause. As always, the success of what we learn and today is offered to do additional lifles To improve the star composition, and about · · in the evening.
