Many SpaceX Starship heat tiles fell off during the last orbital launch. The number of heat tiles that fell off were so high that one group of people have found some that washed up from the ocean after a storm. The heat tiles are light and fragile. SpaceX must determine improved ways to prevent the …
SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell said We’ll figure out what happened on both stages as well and get back to flight, hopefully in about six weeks, flight four hopefully, beginning part of May. SpaceX’s President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave the opening keynote at the Satellite 2024’s opening session today. Shotwell also said 1. SpaceX’s immediate …
Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX Starship will travel across the solar system and to the cloud of objects around us. The cloud of objects around us are either referring to the Kuiper Belt (35-80AU and possibly larger) and the Oort Comet Cloud (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). Nextbigfuture has covered recent research findings that the Kuiper …
SpaceX had the huge success on March 14, 2024 with the successful launch of Starship to orbit. The Super Heavy booster returned most of the way but lost control before a soft landing attempt. The Starship was lost after about 49 minutes when it tried to re-enter but burned up with some lost heat shield. …
Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion miles. Recent observation suggests it extends out at least 5 billion miles. This is based upon finding about 2000 objects, …
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation’s (CASIC) plans to build a giant magnetic launcher to propel airplanes up to speeds where they can start hypersonic scramjet engines. CASIC has built a 2000 meter long low-vacuum track high-speed maglev test facility in the industrial heartland of Datong, Shanxi province. This is able to accelerate heavy object …
Spacex reports that this is the second test of Starship where all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster started up successfully and completed a full-duration burn during ascent. • Starship has a second successful hot-stage separation. It powering down all but three of Super Heavy’s Raptor engines and successfully igniting the six second …
SpaceX has shown us the inside of the Starship while it was in orbit and opening the Pez bay door. Gases in the bay were shown escaping the door. This would be the real life venting into space shown in many science fiction movies. They also provide the first footage of re-entry plasma heating. This …
Launch – Successful. Separation – Successful. Boost back – Successful . Booster engine re-light for landing failed Super Heavy hover – Not successful. Achieving “orbit” – Huge success. Door open / close – Successful. Prop transfer – Big success. Re-entry upper stage – Partial success. Upper stage hover – Unsuccessful I believe. Brian WangBrian Wang …
Here is a summary of what seems to have happened. Launch – Successful. Separation – Successful. Boost back – Successful I think. Super Heavy hover – Not successful. Achieving “orbit” – Huge success. Door open / close – Successful. Prop transfer – Big success. Re-entry upper stage – Partial success. Upper stage hover – Unsuccessful …
The SpaceX Starship launching tomorrow will enable a new generation of larger Gen 3 Starlink satellites. They will weigh over 2 tons and will unfold to a wingspan of 60 meters for larger antennas and solar panels. The space station is about 75 meters wide while the SpaceX Gen 3 will have a 60 meters …