SpaceX Starship prototype rocket explodes on landing after test launch

SpaceX星际飞船原型机在测试发射时发生爆炸

WASHINGTON: A prototype of a SpaceX rocket the company hopes will one day journey to Mars crashed in a fiery explosion as it tried to land upright after a test flight Tuesday.

华盛顿：周二，SpaceX星际飞船原型机在试飞后试图直立着陆时发生剧烈爆炸，该公司希望有朝一日SpaceX火箭能踏上火星之旅。

It was the second such explosion after the last prototype of Starship met a similar fate in December.

这是继去年12月星际飞船原型机遭遇类似命运后的第二次爆炸

"We had again another great flight," said a SpaceX announcer on live footage that was broadcast online.

SpaceX的一名播音员在网上直播的视频中说：“我们再次进行了一次伟大的飞行。”

"We've just got to work on that landing a little bit," he added.

他补充说:“我们只需要再为着陆方面做一点努力。”

The company's founder Elon Musk was uncharacteristically quiet on social media, having announced the night before he was "Off Twitter for a while."

该公司创始人埃隆·马斯克在社交媒体上一反常态地沉默，他在前一天晚上宣布将暂时“离开Twitter”。

The stainless steel rocket dubbed SN9 was cleared for lift-off from Boca Chica, Texas by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which had earlier delayed granting authorization after determining that SpaceX's last launch violated the terms of its license.

这枚名为SN9的不锈钢火箭是由美国联邦航空管理局批准从德克萨斯州博卡奇卡发射的。此前，美国联邦航空管理局认定SpaceX的上一次发射违反了许可条款，因此推迟了授权。

The rocket launched smoothly around 3:30 pm local time (2030 GMT) and progressively shut down its engines as it reached a height of 10 kilometers (six miles), then performed a series of test maneuvers in a horizontal "belly flop" position.

该火箭在当地时间下午3点30分(格林威治时间2030年)顺利发射，并在到达10公里(6英里)高度时逐步关闭引擎，然后进行了一系列测试机动。

It was when the rocket attempted to return to a vertical position for landing that the problems began, with the footage showing it came in much too fast and at a bad angle.

当火箭试图恢复垂直姿态着陆时，问题来了，视频显示它进入的速度太快，角度也不好。

It landed with a deafening crash, and exploded into bright orange flames and a dust cloud, but the fire did not spread.

火箭坠落时发出震耳欲聋的撞击声，爆炸后燃起明亮的橙色火焰和一团尘埃云，但火势没有蔓延。

Tuesday's launch was delayed by several days over problems stemming from SpaceX's last Starship test on December 9, which also went up in flames.

由于SpaceX去年12月9日进行的最后一次星际飞船测试出现问题，周二的发射被推迟了几天，上次测试也发生了爆炸。

印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Manny Parhar

if India was employ a pvt co for rocket launching...news will Modi Sold ISRO...LMAO

如果私营公司雇印度ISRO发射火箭…新闻会说莫迪会把ISRO卖了，笑死我了

Sanjoy Pandey

Soft landing procedure is a very important step towards development of spacex rockets.

软着陆程序是SpaceX火箭研发过程中非常重要的一步。

Jagdish Chandra

The wall of curtain between success and multi failure mission of Aspacex Starship Prototype Rocket will fall ahead, but have to show concrete patient for this mission to achieve.

Spacex飞船原型火箭经历了多次失败定会成功的，必须有耐心，才能完成这项任务。

nikhil chandra

Half of ppl commenting as failure does not even know rockets does not land it is spacex quest in doing so.

一半的人评论说失败了，他们不知道火箭没有着陆，这是SpaceX的探索。

Chalu Pande

what do you know about SpaceX work culture?? do you know they ask people to work like animal for 80-100 hours a week. no brain can think properly after working like this for weeks and months..

你们对SpaceX的工作文化了解多少?你知道吗，他们要求员工一周工作80到100个小时，对待员工像动物一样。像这样工作几周、几个月后，大脑都不能正常思考了。

nikhil chandra

You must be kidding right? Every startup has this even in the one in which I am working, I had almost done 100 hr every week for last five years.  And I doubt even you know about spacex culture , non US citizens cannot work there.

你一定是在开玩笑吧?每一家创业公司都有这样的项目，我现在工作的公司也这样，在过去的五年里，我几乎每周工作100个小时。我怀疑你不了解SpaceX的文化，非美国公民不能在这家公司工作。

Rahul Soni

outsource the same to ISRO.

外包给ISRO吧。

nikhil chandra

ISRO rockets does not land

ISRO的火箭不会着陆

No BS

Landing is difficult but watching those booster rockets coming back and landing on their own was amazing.

着陆是很难的，看着这些助推器返回并自行着陆，真是令人惊讶。

As

Should have tied a lemon for safety

为了安全，应该绑个柠檬

Satyanarayana Shenoy

Childish

幼稚

Som Khanna

success i develo technology is always full of some failures . it requires lot of patience and learn from failures

开发技术总是会遇到一些失败才能成功。这需要很大的耐心，要从失败中学习

John Abraham

Hope few fikthy rich was in and now dead ..

希望上面载了几个富人，现在都挂了。

Kumar B

Ambitious, but make it safe.. landing has been a major issue for long, fix it well, many occasions it crash landed

雄心勃勃，但要保证安全。长久以来，着陆一直是一个大问题，好好解决这个问题，经常会出现着陆坠毁

nikhil chandra

This is only second time they tried to land full scale prototype of starship

这是他们第二次尝试着陆星际飞船原型机

Iron Dome

Yeah so many falcons were destroyed before they mastered it. This is also destined to become a success eventually. And yeah ISRO is way backwards (like maruti 800 vs Tesla Model S) so yeah don't compare LOLOL

猎鹰火箭在成功之前也坠毁了很多次，这枚火箭注定最终会成为成功。ISRO是非常落后的(就像马鲁蒂800 VS特斯拉S型)，所以别比较了

Rafi Uddin

every failure inches towards the ultimate.

每一次失败都会使你一步步走向最终的成功。

Chalu Pande

Great .. Musk needs to learn to have their people follow proper testing procedures instead of keep pushing them to work 20 hours a day to produce everything faster ..

马斯克需要让员工遵循适当的测试程序，而不是一直督促他们每天工作20个小时，加快生产速度。