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Why Elon Musk detonates one of his rockets

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The rocket exploded in a fireball 84 seconds after launch

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Elon Musk detonated a missile in flight. Rocket engines were deliberately shut down shortly before to simulate a catastrophic technical failure. See the full length test here.

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SpaceX did a spectacular missile test. A rescue capsule was blown off at supersonic speed shortly after take-off and returned safely to Earth. The Americans made progress over the competition.

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elon Musk detonated a rocket in flight to test the rescue of astronauts in an emergency. The spectacular attempt was successful on Sunday.

An unmanned Crew Dragon astronaut capsule was blown off at a supersonic speed 84 seconds after the Falcon rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rocket engines were deliberately switched off shortly before to simulate a catastrophic technical failure at a height of almost 20 kilometers.

A few seconds after the capsule was detached, the rocket exploded in a huge fireball, as expected. In the meantime, the capsule flew with its own eight small rescue jets up to a height of over 40 kilometers and landed on parachutes in the Atlantic after a good nine minutes. Rescue teams salvaged two test dolls strapped into the capsule.

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With the successful attempt, space company SpaceX from Elon Musk has cleared the last hurdle to bring people from US soil into space again this year. Two astronauts could take off in a few months.

This would break the current Russian monopoly on manned flights to the “International Space Station” (ISS). Since the end of the Spaceshuttle program in 2011, the Nasa space agency has relied on the Russians to offer space tickets in their Soyuz space capsules for millions of dollars.

For the technology entrepreneur Musk, it’s also a triumph over Boeing, The large aerospace group is competing with space newcomer SpaceX, to whom NASA grants permission to be the first to send a manned US capsule back to the ISS.

SpaceX triumph over Boeing

SpaceX is now clearly ahead. An unmanned Crew Dragon capsule flew to the ISS in March 2019, automatically docked and later landed in the Atlantic again. A complete success.

However, the first unmanned space flight of the Boeing Starliner capsule in December 2019 was only a partial success. A clock for control in the space capsule deviated by a massive eleven hours from the correct time and therefore initiated rail maneuvers incorrectly.

For safety reasons, the capsule was not coupled to the space station and returned to Earth prematurely. For the Boeing group with its problems with the crash plane 737 Max, another damper in reputation.

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Boeing also successfully completed a test of the emergency rescue system for its Starliner capsule. However, the November attempt was far less demanding and risky and was not carried out by an actual flying missile in the air.

The importance of the astronaut capsule rescue systems only became clear in October 2018. At that time, the Russian Soyuz mission MS-10 started with a two-man crew from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. After about two minutes of flight, the capsule’s rescue system was triggered at a height of roughly 50 kilometers because of a technical failure on the missile.

The separated capsule then flew to a height of 93 kilometers and landed on a parachute almost 20 minutes after takeoff. However, the physical strain on the crew was very high and reached six to seven times the acceleration due to gravity. So they were pressed into the seats with up to seven times their own body weight.

In the now successful test of the SpaceX capsule’s rescue system, the load should be a maximum of four times, it was said in advance. So a more comfortable rescue than the Russians.

Debris is pounding off the coast of Florida on the Atlantic

The explosion of the Falcon rocket resulted in a shower of rubble, which pounded roughly 20 kilometers off the coast of Florida on the Atlantic. Ships commissioned by SpaceX collected larger fragments. The second stage of the rocket plunged into the sea intact and there was another fireball.

Elon Musk, the founder of the SpaceX space company, said in a press conference after the mission confident about an early manned flight. “The hardware” would be available at the end of February. However, the many data from the rescue test would still have to be analyzed. Parachute tests are also pending. Therefore, the start is expected in the second quarter.

NASA boss Jim Bridenstine congratulated SpaceX on the test success. This would put the US on the threshold of launching Americans from US soil again with a US rocket. However, he avoided naming an exact start date. This also depends on how long the first US crew from a US capsule should stay in the space station. The NASA boss emphasized that he is betting on competition and competition for manned flights into space. The United States should never again happen to be dependent on just one launch system, like the space shuttle.

When asked a journalist whether the astronauts in a capsule could have been saved if they hadn’t blown off when the rocket exploded, he said Musk was optimistic. The rescue system is also designed for this scenario. “It would have blown out of the fireball,” he said.

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