The success of the test flight is a major achievement for the company, which aims to fly people to the moon and Mars with the spacecraft.

“The descent of the starship is nominal!” SpaceX founder Elonas Muscas wrote on Twitter that he had won the previous four setbacks.

Spaceflight terminology means “nominal” but not “normal”.

Shortly after landing, only a small fire engulfed the bottom of the 50-meter-high SN15 rocket.

During the SpaceX video broadcast, presenter John Inspraker explained that “it is not uncommon to use methane as a fuel.” He added that engineers are still working to eliminate the design flaws.

I saw how the flames were quickly extinguished by water cannons.

SN15 started at 5 p.m. 25 minutes. At an altitude of about 10 km from the Starbase complex in Boca, Chicago, Texas, a number of tasks, including landing in a horizontal position, are called “climbing on the belly flop.”

SpaceX has been under pressure since the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced last month.

However, 2.9 billion. The $ 2.41 billion deal is currently on hold following complaints from rival companies Blue Origin and Dynamics.

However, if the contract is approved, Starship e. It will grow from a private project in Moscow into a large tax-funded project, and will be subject to appropriate oversight.

The previous two starship prototypes, the SN8 and SN9, crashed during test flights in December and February.

The SN10, which launched on March 3, landed smoothly but soon exploded.

During the fourth test flight, E. Muskas later confirmed that the video transmission from the SN11 rocket had been turned off and that the machine had exploded in the air.

SpaceSpace plans to integrate Starship with a super heavy launch vehicle and create a reusable system for long-haul flights in the Solar System.

The final version of the rocket is 120 meters high and lifts 100 tons of cargo into orbit around the Earth. It is the most powerful carrier system ever created.

E. that this progress will help him realize his dream. Muscovite hopes – to transform mankind into a multi-planetary civilization that has established a colony on Mars.

However, the tasks on the planned Starship Moon variant will be more modest – to connect to the future lunar orbit station and to take a group of astronauts to fly to Earth’s natural satellite.

To fly people to the lunar orbit station, NASA is planning a more traditional option: to use the heavy launch vehicle SLS and the human capsule Orion.

However, the SLS project worked steeply and cost more than planned, so observers predict that NASA’s rocket will miss out on the success of the StarShip.