Elon Musk He has had a difficult few days. While the matter continues in open fire and free fall with X, before Twitterthe things in SpaceX They promised to be better with the second test of their Starship rocket, designed to travel to Mars.
But as we already saw, things did not go well and this new attempt ended in another monumental explosionwhich implies a new series of problems for the company’s engineering team.
To be honest, the fiasco was less worse than the previous attempt, since in the test on April 20, 2023, the SpaceX rocket exploded as soon as it took off before the eyes of thousands of people who were watching it live.
While with this new incident the ship managed to surpass the Kárman line (which is the limit between the atmosphere and outer space), rising above 150 kilometers at a speed of 24,000 kilometers per hour.
An important advance, but one that ended in an explosion, without achieving the original goal: completing a 90-minute flight with a controlled return by landing the rocket intact.
But something became clear to us with all this, and that is that it would only be a matter of time before they achieve their goal.
SpaceX and Starship’s obstacle to reaching Mars
Garrett Reisman former astronaut POTformer director of Space Operations of SpaceXhas granted an exclusive interview to colleagues from Computer Today.
In the talk, the expert with extensive experience in the field ends up pointing out what everyone highly suspects. That Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars:
“SpaceX’s goal is quite clear: to make humanity an interplanetary species and, more specifically, to colonize Mars.
If we look at some of SpaceX’s projections, the work on Mars would not be far from what we see in Happy Valley from For All Mankind.
The final line alludes to the exclusive Apple TV+ series, For All Mankind, which is reaching its fourth season and which in its story proposes the existence of Happy Valley, an international colony on Mars where humans live, within the fictional universe of the plot.
For Reisman, the biggest thing that currently separates Elon Musk and SpaceX from approaching the beginning of that new era is getting their Starship rocket to work.
But taking into account what happened with the Falcon family, we can calculate that it will take some time for him to move forward.