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The Starship system is a fully reusable, two‑stage‑to‑orbit super heavy‑lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called “Starship”
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I want Elon to build the Starship Enterprise. And I wanted it yesterday 🤣 it can handle space exploration better than anyone 😊
I was thinking last night about how they'd ever get this human rated? if the booster failed on the pad how will the Starship have enough thrust to get out of the way in time? There is literally no plan for an escape mechanism just the hope that if it flies 100 times without fail then that is enough. Is it even possible to have an escape mechanism for the crew part?
Flight 6 will launch just before thanksgiving
Means the catching works amazing, just other things such as heat shield tiles. Space x could afford to build starship out off other materials now such as 3 d printing a starship or booster especially when reusable.
Build few other catch tower, perhaps separate catch towers to launch towers.
Improve on heat shield and perhaps 3d print starships. Now as the rocket fully reusable.
Shortening the catch arms I think pushing the limits too much.
Space x now need to speed up progress and step up production now they know starship catch works.
Catch higher on the tower so it reduces crisping stage zero.
It would be interesting to see the history SpaceX's philosophy re. cost to launch. Musk and I are about the same age so he probably read the same article in Wired about this old Soviet rocket engineer who's philosophy of big dumb boosters bringing the cost to well under $500/kilo., contrasted with high tech like the Space Shuttle at $25K/ kilo. They weren't talking about reuseability that much then. It would be interesting to see where reuse re-entered thinking about how to reduce cost to orbit. The Soviet guy wanted to just build really huge rockets with big engines with broad tolerances so they could be built cheaply. Very different from Superheavy and its engines, but the linkage would be interesting: who was talking to whom? Who was reading whose papers? The history would be fascinating.
Definitely some type off space station refuelling depo.
Starship may not launch "hundreds of Starlink satellites" at a time. It will be launching full size v2 models, which are much larger and heavier than the mini v2 models being launched by Falcon 9.
That's great news! Whatever happened with the program of sending people to other parts of the world via the starship? Is that still in development?
It’s still not a mature system. It probably can’t go to the moon directly and it would be a long time before NASA Would allow its astronauts to land with it(probably). So we a Artemis system because it had ability that this rocket and others do not.
Even if SpaceX did not reuse any of rocket, they could still do it cheaper than SLS could.
Flight6 might be before Nov15,2024
If SpaceX is making that many raptors, then the throw away cost of a one way upper stage starship may be worth it. A one way upper stage must double the payload. 100,000 extra payload pounds for the cost of the upper stage $40,000,000?. $400 per pound into orbit.
I suspect he will try for one more launch this year, then go to the upgraded version starting next year.