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The media has been talking these days about the SpaceX StarShip test, many media outlets talk about failure, but we must not forget that it is a test, a prototype, a new technology that is even annoying. the childishness of many journalists, someone really believes that the largest rocket and spaceship in history can be created and that everything turns out well on the first try.

Thomas Edison made more than 1000 attempts before creating his light bulb. The White Brothers spent years of testing before they managed to fly and this is how technological development advances with experiments with tests and learning from mistakes.

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To judge what happened on the 18th you have to see the list of SpaceX objectives, which ones they have met and whether the achievements have surpassed those of the previous test, the StarShip is made up of two elements, the so-called super heavy rocket, in this case the B9 and the spacecraft or StarShip itself, which would be the S25, a prototype that is the structure of what will be the future interplanetary ship, this was not prepared for the transport of astronauts and there is still a lot of work to be done to install the life support and the habitat for the crew of that ship.

The two elements together add up to a height of approximately 121 m and a diameter of approximately 9 m. If we review the objectives that Elon Musk's company sought to achieve, we see that many points have been met and that a lot has been improved compared to the previous test of the month of April.

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There were four very positive points to begin with: the take-off platform held up, it was not destroyed like in the previous test and this is very good since it is not normal to want to create a rocket that is reusable but its launch platform is not and a new one has to be built for each takeoff.

The second positive point is that the 33 Raptor engines held up. In the previous test, several failed. The engineers maintain a margin of error, but this time they all fulfilled their mission at least until they reached the third point or third goal, which was to achieve separation. of the ship's rocket, something that occurred at about 74 km high, is something that they did not achieve in the previous test and that was the reason why the rocket and ship had to be destroyed at that time.

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From that moment on, things began to complicate, shortly after the separation the first major failure occurred. An investigation still needs to be done, but it seems that this failure is related to the engines and is what forced the self-destruct of the rocket to be activated. , but the spacecraft continued its journey and achieved the fourth great objective, the fourth great positive point and that is that the starship surpassed the Karman line and reached space reaching up to 150 km high, but at that point something that still It is not clear that it began to malfunction, forcing it to activate self-destruct when the ship was flying over near Puerto Rico.

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I would give this test a score of notable, the outstanding would have been if they had managed to recover the rocket in the Gulf of Mexico and the ship had made re-entry and been picked up in Pacific waters near the Hawaii Islands, as planned. do, but everything else went pretty well, as SpaceX said in its press release, multiplanetary life with a ship that can allow us to reach Mars and beyond, is a great challenge and every great challenge comes with great risks.

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