SpaceX đạt được tiến bộ trong lần phóng thứ 2 của Mặt trăng khổng lồ và Tên lửa sao Hỏa

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SpaceX, Elon Musk's spaceflight (hàng không vũ trụ) company, launched its Starship rocket from the coast of South Texas on Saturday, a mammoth (khổng lồ) vehicle that could alter (thay đổi) the future of space transportation and help NASA return astronauts to the moon.

Saturday’s flight of Starship, a powerful vehicle designed to carry NASA astronauts to the moon, was not a complete success. SpaceX did not achieve the test launch’s ultimate objective — a partial (một chuyến, một phần) trip around the world ending in a splashdown (rơi xuống, bắn tung tóe) in the Pacific Ocean.

But the test flight, the vehicle’s second, did show that the company had fixed key issues that arose during the earlier test operation in April. All 33 engines in the vehicle’s lower booster stage fired, and the rocket made it through stage separation — when the booster falls away and the six engines of the upper stage light up to carry the vehicle to space.

source: nytimes,