The space travel company SpaceX has completed its most successful test yet of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket — but as the unmanned rocket completed its flight, it was destroyed upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.The maximum thrust of the Saturn V rocket that took NASA astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program was relatively paltry: 7.6 million pounds. An even more transformative feature of Starship is that it is designed to be entirely reusable.SpaceX's Starship rocket will be on Mars by the end of the decade and a future version will travel between the stars, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday, days after the company celebrated major progress after the rocket's third test flight as it works with NASA to return astronauts to the moon.

Will Starship survive reentry : SpaceX later confirmed that Starship did not survive reentry. The test-until-you-fail process will continue for SpaceX, using lessons learned from the success and failures on this latest flight.

Why did Starship fail

The explosion was caused by a venting of liquid oxygen, he added — and there was liquid oxygen left to vent only because Starship wasn't hauling any satellites that day. "We normally wouldn't have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload," Musk said in the update, which he gave at Starbase to a crowd of SpaceX employees.

Why did Starship 2 fail : At T+7:05, a planned vent of liquid oxygen caused several explosions and fires. This led to a loss of communication between the flight computers, shutdown of all engines, and ultimately triggered the FTS.

Both components are reusable. This makes Starship different from SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, where only the first stage and fairings are reused. Elon Musk believes that such a reusable system will reduce the launch cost to $10 million.

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The Starliner has an innovative, weldless structure and is reusable up to 10 times with a six-month turnaround time.

Can Starship go to the moon

Starship is the landing system that will bring astronauts to the lunar surface with the Artemis 3 mission, no earlier than 2026.Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back.During the test, multiple first-stage engines failed and the rocket began to tumble. Engineers activated a self-destruct mechanism while the ship was in mid-air.

The only apparent launch issue came as the booster rocket prepared to return to Earth; its engines did not all re-ignite and SpaceX confirmed a "hard splashdown" for the first stage in the Gulf of Mexico.

How SpaceX almost failed : Between 2006 and 2008 SpaceX had three failed launch attempts that threatened to end the company. In 2006, SpaceX's first launch attempt failed as a result of a fuel leak and resultant fire. A later review of the launch vehicle found that a fuel-line nut had corroded due to nearby ocean spray.

Will Starship ever work : If all goes according to plan, Starship will put astronauts down on the moon for the first time on the Artemis 3 mission, which is tentatively scheduled to lift off in September 2026. A lot more work, and many more test flights, will be needed to get Starship ready to carry astronauts in deep space.

Was Starship 3 a success or failure

The Starship's third test was a success not because it met all of its objectives but because it advanced the day when the largest rocket ship that has ever flown will change the face of space travel forever. The fourth test flight will likely meet more objectives, as well the fifth and the sixth and so on.

12, Musk said the failure was linked to venting liquid oxygen propellant near the end of the burn. That venting, he said, was needed only because the vehicle was not carrying any payload. “Flight 2 actually almost made it to orbit,” he said.As part of NASA's Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is working with SpaceX to develop the company's Starship human landing system (HLS), which will land astronauts near the Moon's South Pole during the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions.

Can an astronaut go to space twice : Walker, exceeded 100 kilometers (about 62.1 miles) and he did it two times, becoming the first person in space twice. Space travelers have spent over 41,790 man-days (114.5-man-years) in space, including over 100 astronaut-days of spacewalks.