在最后两次试飞后随着宇宙飞船的毁灭而提前结束周二的星际飞船发射证明了该飞行器能够成功到达轨道。然而，在飞行器进入亚轨道轨道后，明显的推进剂泄漏导致姿态控制失控，使航天器旋转，任务控制无法控制飞行器。
太空探索技术公司说，由于无法驾驶飞船，它以一个不适合隔热罩的角度重返地球大气层。结果，大部分预计会被烧掉，剩下的碎片会落入印度洋。该公司表示，它清理了着陆区的大片区域，以确保公共安全。
该公司张贴了一张关于X的声明阅读，“好像飞行测试还不够刺激，Starship经历了一次快速的非计划拆卸。各小组将继续审查数据，并为我们的下一次飞行测试而努力。通过这样的测试，成功来自我们所学到的东西，今天的测试将帮助我们提高星际飞船的可靠性，因为太空探索技术公司试图让生命成为多平面的。” megarocket的下一次试飞，这是创始人埃隆·马斯克火星野心的关键，此前该飞船的最后两次航行以剧烈爆炸而告终。
安装在由33个猛禽发动机提供动力的超重型火箭上，这艘无冕之王星舰在美国东部时间下午7点30分成功从太空探索技术公司位于得克萨斯州南部的星际基地发射升空。当所有33个引擎在强大的火箭上点燃，推动星舰经过塔楼并进入其计划的亚轨道轨道时，建筑物的摇晃声清晰可闻。
近400英尺高，太空探索技术公司说星际飞船和它的助推器是有史以来最强大的火箭系统。与该公司的部分可重复使用的猎鹰9号不同，太空探索技术公司的目标是Starship完全可重复使用，能够在最少维护的情况下再次发射、着陆和飞行。
周二的发射是太空探索技术公司工程迭代方法的一部分。在每次任务中，该公司都会评估数据，对航天器进行调整，并借鉴以往的成功经验和失败教训。这些飞行试验的知识被应用到未来的飞行器和任务中，直到Starship为乘客做好准备。
对于周二的任务，太空探索技术公司基于从以前的飞行测试中吸取的教训，对上面级进行了重大修改，包括导致星际飞船毁灭的最后两次。
在星际飞船的三月初的第八次飞行测试在发射大约5分半钟后，几个引擎意外关闭，导致太空探索技术公司失去对飞船的控制。几分钟后，与车辆的通信中断。
经过调查，该公司表示，一个引擎的“硬件故障”导致燃料混合并在不应该的地方点燃。虽然这艘船没有被指示自毁，但太空探索技术公司说它很可能是自动自毁的。
随着星际飞船的解体，残骸掉落在南方佛罗里达州和部分大西洋水域，导致附近机场停飞。社交媒体上分享的照片和视频显示，火箭碎片划过天空。
一月份发生了一次类似的故障，当时强于预期的振动导致推进剂泄漏和爆炸。在这两种情况下，上面一级都丢失了，但第一级助推器成功返回发射场，并使用连接在发射塔上的巨型机器人“筷子”抓住了它。
太空探索技术公司表示，它根据从以前的飞行测试中获得的经验，对上面级进行了重大修改，并指出，虽然两次故障在任务期间几乎同时发生，但原因并不相关。
以前的任务中没有宇航员，这次也没有。
据太空探索技术公司称，周二的第九次测试标志着“经过飞行验证的超重型助推器的首次发射”，该助推器在第七次试飞中飞行并返回。在助推器的33个引擎中，有29个也是从之前的测试中重复使用的。工程师检查并更换了已知的一次性部件，如隔热罩，但将助推器几乎完好无损地留下来，以研究现实世界的磨损。
与前两次任务不同的是，在周二的发射中，重型助推器返回了发射场，助推器遵循了一条修改后的飞行路线，其中包括一次翻转，然后似乎在海湾溅落时爆炸。数据和视频在助推器落水前丢失，但该公司表示，它最终落在了海里。
在太空中实现其计划轨迹后，Starship的上面级试图部署一组模拟Starlink卫星，以测试其有效载荷部署能力。然而，任务控制中心无法打开门进行测试。太空探索技术公司表示，他们将在未来的任务中再次尝试。
太空探索技术公司飞船在3月份的试飞中爆炸后，马斯克在x上写下了“火箭很难”。周二晚上，这是一个严峻的提醒，提醒人们太空旅行有多难。
In 9th flight test, SpaceX launches Starship but doesn’t complete the mission
Elon Musk and SpaceX are getting a little closer to sending humans to Mars, but they still have plenty of work to do.
After the last two test flightsended prematurely with the destruction of the spacecraft, Tuesday's Starship launch demonstrated that the vehicle could successfully reach orbit. However, an apparent propellant leak after the craft entered its suborbital trajectory caused a loss of attitude control, leaving the spacecraft spinning and mission control unable to control the craft.
Without the ability to steer the craft, SpaceX said it re-entered Earth's atmosphere at an angle that is not ideal for its heat shield. As a result, most of it was expected to burn up, with the remaining pieces falling into the Indian Ocean. The company said it cleared a large area of the landing zone to ensure public safety.
The company posted astatement on Xreading, "As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test. With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today's test will help us improve Starship's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary.”This screengrab from SpaceX live shows the SpaceX Starship rocket launching from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX launched its next test flight of its Starship megarocket -- the linchpin of founder Elon Musk's Mars ambitions -- after the vessel's last two outings ended in fiery explosions.
Mounted atop a Super Heavy rocket that's powered by 33 Raptor engines, the uncrewed Starship successfully lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase test facility in South Texas just after 7:30 p.m. ET. The sound of the building shaking was audible as all 33 engines lit on the powerful rocket that propelled Starship past the tower and into its planned suborbital trajectory.
At nearly 400 feet tall, SpaceX says the Starship and its booster are the most powerful rocket system ever developed. And unlike the company's partially reusable Falcon 9, SpaceX aims for Starship to be fully reusable and capable of launching, landing and flying again with minimal maintenance.
Tuesday's launch is part of SpaceX's iterative approach to engineering. With each mission, the company evaluates the data, makes adjustments to the spacecraft, and builds upon its previous successes and lessons learned from failures. Those flight test learnings are applied to future vehicles and missions until Starship is ready for passengers.
For Tuesday's mission, SpaceX made significant modifications to the upper stage based on lessons learned from previous flight tests, including the last two that resulted in the destruction of the Starship.
During Starship'seighth flight test in early March, several engines shut down unexpectedly about 5 1/2 minutes into the launch, resulting in SpaceX losing control of the craft. Communication with the vehicle was lost several minutes later.
After an investigation, the company said a "hardware failure" with one of the engines caused fuel to mix and ignite where it shouldn't have. And while the ship wasn't instructed to self-destruct, SpaceX says it likely did so automatically.
As Starship broke up,debris fell across SouthFloridaand parts of the Atlantic, leading to ground stops at nearby airports. Photos and videos shared on social media showed rocket debris streaking across the sky.
A similar failure occurred in January when stronger-than-expected vibrations causeda propellant leak and explosion. In both cases, the upper stage was lost, but the first-stage booster was successfully returned to the launch site and caught using giant robotic "chopsticks" attached to the launch tower.
SpaceX said it has made significant modifications to the upper stage based on what it learned from previous flight tests and noted that while both failures occurred around the same time during the missions, the causes were unrelated.
No astronauts were aboard the previous missions, and none were onboard this time.
According to SpaceX, Tuesday's ninth test marked "the first launch of a flight-proven Super Heavy booster," one that flew and returned during the seventh test flight. Of the booster's 33 engines, 29 were also reused from the previous test. Engineers inspected and replaced known single-use components, such as the heat shield, but left the booster mostly intact to study real-world wear and tear.
Unlike the previous two missions, where the heavy booster returned to its launch site, during Tuesday's launch, the booster followed a modified flight path that included a flip before it appears to have exploded while splashing down in the Gulf. Data and video were lost before the booster hit the water, but the company said that it ultimately ended up in the ocean.
After achieving its planned trajectory in space, Starship's upper stage tried to deploy a set of mock Starlink satellites to test its payload deployment capabilities. However, mission control was unable to get the doors open for the test. SpaceX said they will try it again on a future mission.
After the SpaceX Starship exploded in March during that test flight, Musk wrote “rockets are hard” on X. On Tuesday evening, it was a stark reminder of just how hard space travel can be.
