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Launch of Starship: “Everything worked well until the separation of the two rockets”, explains journalist Jean-Luc Dauvergne
Launch of Starship: “Everything worked well until the separation of the two rockets”, explains journalist Jean-Luc Dauvergne – (France info)
Jean-Luc Dauvergne, science journalist for Ciel et Espace magazine, was the guest of 19/20 info. He notably returned to the launch of Starship, Saturday November 18.
Saturday November 18, the company SpaceX carried out a test flight of its rocket Starship. Success or failure? “What we must understand is SpaceX’s development philosophy which has always been to break rockets, to make voluntary failures to learn things. (…) The launch pad does not seem to have been destroyed. The 33 engines seem to have worked perfectly. This is a great success.“, assures Jean-Luc Dauvergne, science journalist for the magazine Ciel et Espace.
The Moon, a distant horizon
He explains that “everything worked well until the two rockets separated”, which was a pretty important point. It was after this separation that there was an incident for the propeller and for the Starship, the upper part of the rocket. Jean-Luc Dauvergne indicates that he expects “so that there are several more attempts”but he notes “that these attempts are quite close together”. The science journalist recalls that the purpose, “is to go to the Moon” and this “horizon still seems distant”.