SpaceX has begun reinstalling three of the six Raptor engines that will power the first orbital-class Starship and repairing the heat shield that will hopefully protect it on its first trip to space. Known as Starship 20 or S20, the 50m (~165 ft) tall steel rocket prototype has been stati...
Starship could leverage that as well I suspect... it should know where the arms are. That would be finding the moving arms first, and then tracking the distance as they closed. Too complicated. F9 is flat ground. Easy to find and measure. scaesare Well-Known M...
Over the last six or so months, SpaceX has been gradually expanding small installations of heat shield tiles on Starship prototypes, ranging from vehicles that never left the ground to high-altitude Starships SN8 and SN9. Those tile installations have grown from a handful (4-8 on Starhopper in...
27 hours for Starship to completely sink... must have been oriented with a large air pocket at one end of the tank. Also interesting they brought up a bag of heat shield tiles... first opportunity to look at some of those from Starship, I think. Last edited: N...
Elon Musk is determined to get to Mars and return home, but in order for a spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, it needs to be able to withstand the heat. Yesterday, SpaceX tested the heat shield tiles that allow the company's Starship interplanetary spacecraft to do just that. ...
The 400-foot vehicle looms over NASA's rocket, theSpace Launch System. It would take about five billboards stacked on top of the space agency's mega rocket to be as tall as Starship. SpaceX estimates its rocket also has about twice as much thrust. ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared a video showing what looks to be the early stages of testing for Starship’s (BFS) unprecedented metallic heat shield, recently described as a double-layered steel sandwich that will be regeneratively cooled by cryogenic liquid methane. ...