A week ago, private rocket company SpaceX got as close as it’s consistently been to effectively completing a soft-landing of a reusable heavy lift rocket it desires to one day send to the moon and Mars.

The Starship SN10 launched from the SpaceX office in Boca Chica, Texas last Wednesday, ascending to an altitude of in excess of 32,000 feet prior to advancing back to Earth in a controlled descent.

At the point when the spacecraft landed on its arrival pad without perishing in a fireball like its two predecessors, it appeared to be that SpaceX nailed perhaps the most difficult cycles in making a reusable, cost-effective rocket.

Minutes later, the stainless steel rocket ship was destroyed in a fiery explosion.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday clarified the rocket landed at too high a speed.

“SN10 engine was low on thrust due (probably) to partial helium ingestion from fuel header tank. Impact of 10m/s [22 miles per hour] crushed legs & part of skirt,” he tweeted.

A closer look at the arrival of SN10 shows it was marginally leaning aside prior to exploding.

Musk proceeded to clarify that the helium ingestion was likely the aftereffect of a pressurization system that had been added to the methane header tank to fix a difficult that happened in a past starship model, SN8.

“If autogenous pressurization had been used, CH4 bubbles would most likely have reverted to liquid,” he said. “Helium in header was used to prevent ullage collapse from slosh, which happened in prior flight. My fault for approving. Sounded good at the time.”

The test, however, was as yet hailed as a success as SN10 landed and stayed in one piece fundamentally more than two prior models that exploded on impact.

Wasting little time, another Starship model named SN11 was carried out onto the launchpad this week.

SpaceX presently can’t seem to say precisely when the next flight test will occur, however NASASpaceFlight.com projected the rocket could be all set when one week from now.

Before SN11 was put on the launch mount, SpaceX representatives were seen trying the rocket’s legs.

“Multiple fixes in work for SN11,” Musk tweeted.

Musk has said for this present week that Starship will be prepared to launch people into space and beyond by 2023.