The second test flight of the Starship, carrying Musk's good wishes, failed and disintegrated at high altitude.
Maybe you don't know what Starship is, let alone who Musk is, but you must have heard of the electric car brand Tesla. Starship is the crystallization of the wisdom of SpaceX, a space company owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and is a manned space rocket developed to realize the space migration program.
Okay, so let's get through the recap quickly, let's get back to the starship itself. Under SpaceX's program, Starship is a 100-ton heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of sending 100 people to the moon, Mars, or other far-flung destinationsIts carrying capacity is five to ten times that of most current rockets, making it the most powerful launch vehicle in the world. What SpaceX has to do now is to let this 120-meter-long skyscraper rise from the ground and safely enter space.
Reality is always much more skinny than planned, and the two test flights Starship has conducted so far have ended in failure. During the first test flight of the Starship, the rocket spun out of control due to abnormal engine work, and finally had to activate the self-destruct systemAlthough the second test flight ensured the normal ignition of the engine, the self-destruct system was activated due to the loss of contact with the second stage of the rocket, and the rocket disintegrated over Mexico.
Although the Starship test flight was declared a failure, it still received a lot of applause, and even Musk said on X: "Congratulations to the SpaceX team and look forward to the next test flight of Starship!.""* and failure are actually the norm in SpaceX's space exploration journey. So far, SpaceX has blown up several prototypes and reversed several versions of the rocket's blueprint. Rather than methodically testing in a simulated environment, SpaceX prefers to collect valuable data generated by real accidents to iterate and upgrade their rockets.
Compared with the first flight, the second flight of the starship has more than 1,000 improvements. When the engine of the first flight could not work normally, SpaceX designed a new electronic control system to ensure that the engine was more reliableAfter the launch pad was so damaged that it caused a fire in a nearby park, they added a new water cooling system to offset the large amount of heat generated by the booster. In order to control the cost and increase the frequency of rocket launches, they replaced titanium alloy with stainless steel as the structural material of the rocket, and realized the mode of mass production.
It can be said that SpaceX's journey of space exploration has been trickled through one pit after another. Give them some more time, maybe they can really send the starship into space steadily, and the large-scale interstellar travel of mankind is no longer just a dream. With technology developing so fast, who would have thought that more than a century ago, flying would still be an undesirable thing?
At that time, the dream of human beings to fly to the sky was still circulated in the bedtime stories that mothers read to their children every night: Chang'e, who ate the elixir and ran to the moon, a Monkey King who fought for 108,000 miles, and the flying magic carpet that could reach anywhere by the wind. In every bizarre myth and legend, it is the romantic imagination of human beings about flight in ancient times
And when science and technology enlighten people's minds, we find that these legends and fantasies seem to be able to come true. As a result, one after another, the flying people vowed to open up a way to fly. From Tao Guangyi, who tied 47 homemade rockets to his chair and was eager to soar into the sky, to Gagarin, an astronaut who was still repairing the hatch and entering space a few minutes before the rocket was launchedFrom the wooden bird made by Lu Ban for three years of painstaking efforts, to the "Flyer 1" that was scrapped after 59 seconds of flightHumanity is flying higher and higher, faster and faster, and dreams finally overlap with reality.
The starry sky is vast, and the exploration never ends. After successfully conquering the blue sky of the earth, people set their sights on this infinite universe. As in ancient times, the steady development of science and technology does not limit the imagination of fantasy: "Interstellar", which travels through wormholes to find habitable planets, and "The Three-Body Problem", which imagines alien species and cosmic civilizationsThese imaginations of the universe have been condensed into meticulously crafted works of art.
In addition to literature, film and television, among the many games that are the ninth major art, there are also masterpieces with the theme of the universe. For example, "Endless Lagrange", which is set in the vast universe, also contains the gamer's imagination of space navigation technology: at the gravitational equilibrium point of the planet, there is a special spatial resonance phenomenon, anchoring the space resonance point, and building a high-energy maintenance device "stargate" to inject energy into continuous activation, which can realize long-distance transgalactic navigation for human beings.
After countless hours, the first pair of large two-way star gates, the Sun-Proxima Centauri, was finally completed, and mankind overcame the problem of interstellar travel. More and more stargates were built, and stargates stood between the stars, connecting countless galaxies, forming a huge "Lagrangian transportation network". Humanity has also officially moved from land to space, opening a new chapter in interstellar travel.
In addition to the rigorous and hardcore scientific setting, as an excellent SLG mobile game, "Endless Lagrange" also has enough rich gameplay strategies. In this starry sky, as small as the type change of a ship, to the change of instructions of the group fleet, every operation may affect the trend of the battle situation, and it is a strategic strategy to win a decisive victory thousands of miles awayOr charge into battle, fight the enemy head-on, it's all in your thoughts.
Rush to the stars and chase dreams for nine days. From the earth to the moon, from the solar system to the entire universe, human exploration of the universe will not stop, and even faster and faster. Maybe one day, we can still draw a few readers in the comment area below to send a ticket for interstellar travel, and shuttle through the vast starry sky together.