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UNITED STATES.- Hard setback for Space x and tycoon Elon Musk, owner of the space aircraft company. This Friday, during tests carried out in Boca Chica, Texas, the SN4 prototype from the Starship, just 24 hours before launching the ship with astronauts.
The Space X Raptor rocket, was conducting static ignition tests prior to the first suborbital flights, when apparently a leak caused the tremendous explosion that was recorded in a live streaming that followed step by step the ignition tests in which the aircraft was not scheduled to take off.
Due to the strength of the explosion, the SN4 prototype it was completely destroyed; with that prototype, SpaceX He had planned to make the first flights already manned.
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According to reports from the United States, the explosion came just two minutes after the engine caught fire. “Abductor” of the ship, and from that moment a leak was observed at the bottom of the artifact. However, the company Space X, does not yet report what caused the accident.
Elon Musk obtained permission from the United States authorities just this week, to begin manned flights with the SN4 prototype, whose final model is intended to bring astronauts to the moon and Mars.
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So far, it has not been reported whether the launch scheduled for this weekend has been canceled, but due to the explosion it is very likely that this will happen indefinitely.
The prototype of reusable spacecraft from @SpaceX Called SN4 just exploded while on a test bench.
Fortunately, SpaceX is already used to flying prototypes and had two more under construction just in case something like this happened. pic.twitter.com/6itboRNmwe
– Federico Picchio (@Picchio_Fede) May 29, 2020
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