Simply ensuring that Starship can reach orbit at all is a major challenge. Successfully recovering Starship and Super Heavy after the fact may be an even bigger challenge and cannot be fully demonstrated until the rocket can consistently reach orbit. SpaceX won’t be able to reuse Starship until...
During ascent, the vehicle sustained fires from leaking propellant in the aft end of the Super Heavy booster, which eventually severed connection with the vehicle’s primary flight computer. This led to a loss of communications to the majority of booster engines and, ultimately, control of t...
In mid-November, the FAA revealed plans to complete SpaceX’s “SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program” programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) – a review that can be built upon down the road – by December 31st, 2021,officially delaying Starship’s first orbital launch attempt...
Elon Musk gave his annual update about Starship and Super Heavy, the reusable spaceship and rocket, respectively, that the company is building to help colonize Mars. The presentation took place at SpaceX's South Texas site and featured the 165-foot-tall Starship Mk1 - the first full-size ...
Considering that Starship together with Super Heavy is already the biggest rocket ever built, the number seems unreachable, being around 150 times as high as currently. The specific impulse is also high, out of reach for any chemical rocket engine. The highest specific impulse by a chemical ...
And while we are at it, we also REALLY need Super-STOL composite amphibians in a range of sizes… Shared overall geometries. Just in a range of size/carrying-capacities. For some of those, we might even look at plywood/epoxy/foam/fiberglass hulls so well buildable as one-off options to...
Depending on whether SpaceX actually intends to develop the land shown above into an actual full-scale launch facility for BFR (Super Heavy and Starship), it could also remain generally unchanged until Starhopper’s hop test program has been run to completion, at which point everything seen abo...
cutthroat – knowledge is shared between Texas and Florida – but the strategy is fairly similar. In lieu of actual commercial competitors, SpaceX is attempting to compete with itself to more rapidly and effectively develop a brand new launch vehicle – the stainless steel Starship/Super Heavy. ...
SpaceX is already known to keep a “garden” of rockets at its facilities in South Texas. At any given time, the area can be seen strewn with Starships and Super Heavy boosters. On Thursday, SpaceX confirmed it already has a stable of hardware ready for yet another flight test: “The ...
SpaceX is already known to keep a “garden” of rockets at its facilities in South Texas. At any given time, the area can be seen strewn with Starships and Super Heavy boosters. On Thursday, SpaceX confirmed it already has a stable of hardware ready for yet another flight test: “The ...