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 …
The FCC has authorized SpaceX to conduct communications in the 71.0-76.0 GHz (spaceto-Earth) and 81.0-86.0 GHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands (collectively, E-band), with the 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites. Last year, SpaceX said using E-band radio waves for backhaul would enable Starlink Gen 2 to provide about four times more capacity per satellite than earlier iterations. There …
SpaceX Starship is stacked and ready for its third orbital test launch. The liquid oxygen release systems are fixed from the last launch. I, Brian Wang, believe that this launch will be successful and there will be launches every month starting from this month. The pace of launches will then increase to every week or …
A SpaceX Starlink paper on Latency shows a picture of the Starlink system with an SUV with a flat Starlink dish build into the car. There have been people taking flat satellite dishes and attaching them to their cars. The SpaceX Starlink picture suggests that SpaceX Starlink will make a flat dish that would be …
SpaceX second-generation satellites have performed even better than expected so SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. This would be 68% of the height which would enable 68% latency. This would get latency from 28-35 milliseconds down to 15-20 milliseconds. In 2022, the …
Akira Toriyama, creator of the massively popular Dragonball anime, has died at the age of 68 from a blood clot in the brain. Dragonball had a global cultural impact like Star Trek. There were multiple series and movies that spanned decades. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with …
Space startup Xplore Solar Sail spacecraft design would go seven times faster than the Voyager spacecraft to enable vastly improved exploration of the solar system. The initial design would be to get to 5AU/year speeds but we need to improve it to 40 AU/year speeds. The goal would be to reach 550-650 AU where the …
SpaceX has scheduled a live stream for March 14, 2024 for the third launch orbital test flight of the SpaceX Starship. They have changed the flight plan from previous orbital launches. They will try to make a controlled landing in the Indian Ocean. They will restart engines in orbit and open the payload bay doors. …
Bellik Ozan talked to Ellie in Space about SpaceX Starship costs. Bellik makes the case that SpaceX could modify the Super Heavy Starship for the same reuse as the Falcon 9. Throw away the upper stage with three Raptor engines instead of one Merlin engine in the Falcon 9 second stage. This would enable SpaceX …