Fortunately, the Starship upper stage is made of stainless steel and not aluminum like satellites and upper stages of many other rockets includingSpaceX'sFalcon 9. The incineration of aluminum is what worries many scientists. When aluminum burns at high temperatures during a satellite r...
Sarah Kramer
However, it should be noted that Starlink satellites are not as visible nowadays compared to when they first started to be deployed back in 2019. This is due to efforts such as the Starlink VisorSat program which aims to darken the satellites so as to not interfere as much with astronomical...
Building the International Space Station (ISS) is much like building a toy using a child's LEGO or K'nex building block set. But whereas those playthings tend to be small in scale, the ISS contains thousands and thousands of parts [source: Hollingham]. Some of the major components are li...
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Mobility Within the Space suit Moving within an inflated space suit is tough. Imagine trying to move your fingers in a rubber glove blown up with air; it doesn't give very much. To help this problem, space suits are equipped with special joints or tapers in the fabric to help the astro...
"Launch fewer or no LEO sats. However impractical or unlikely, this is the only option identified that can achieve zero astronomical impact." Unlikely indeed. New SpaceX Starlink batches are lifting off from Earth every few weeks. The company's permit from the FCC to operate a broadband cons...
Because the second rocket weighs much less than the first one, a certain amount of fuel will make it rise very much higher into the sky than if that fuel had to lift both rockets together. The rocket keeps its stability by spinning round at high speed as it flies along, just like a ...
needs, therefore a “back up” plan is essentially built-in. However, I also see a ten-year mission plan that is placing a lot of faith in contract work that is supposed to produce what SpaceX is still working on fourteen years after-the-fact and with a much better financial portfolio...
How much fuel does a spaceship need to reach the moon?Question:How much fuel does a spaceship need to reach the moon?Rockets and Fuel:There have only been a few manned (crewed) missions to the Moon, starting with Apollo 8 which entered orbit of the Moon and returned, followed by Apollo...