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So on Tuesday you will see the ninth Starship flight test from SpaceX

SpaceX's spaceship brought the FAA for the purchase last week after completing the review of the previous flight, which ended with an explosion, and the next test was already able to take off on Tuesday. SpaceX observes on May 27 for the ninth flight test of the Starship. A start window opens at 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. local time for the Texas Starbase). This start marks the first time that SpaceX reused a super heavy booster. The booster for flight nine flew previously with the seventh flight test from Starship at the beginning of this year. While disposable parts have been replaced, SpaceX says that it reused 29 of the 33 raptor engines of the booster.

As always, the audience can adjust it to the livestream at home, starting about 30 minutes before the start of the Starship. This will be available on the SpaceX website and in a shipment in its X profile.

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SpaceX carried out the eighth flight test from Starship in March, but the vehicle met with some problems a few minutes after the start. The super heavy booster was able to return to the starting point after the separation from the upper stage and successfully recorded from the “stick” of the tower, but several Raptor engines switched off for the ship itself, which caused it to fall and ultimately chase himself up.

According to SpaceX, the problem was probably due to “hardware failure in one of the Raptor engines of the upper level, which led to accidental grass mixing and ignition”. Since then, it has made some changes to prevent this from happening again. In an update on May 22, SpaceX said that “motors at the upper level of the starship receive additional preload on key connections, a new nitrogen storage system and improvements in the drift outflow system”.

For flight nine, the super heavy booster will not return to the starting point, but will instead inject the ocean instead. The upper level of the Starship Upper will try to use eight Starlink dummy satellites, and otherwise SpaceX is looking for this flight to “test several experiments that concentrate on enabling the upper stage of the Starship to return to the start page”.

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