According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. According to Kshatriya, SpaceX will perform a Starship-to-Starship cryogenic propellant transfer test in 2025. pic.twitter.com/S6f17Rr6zy — Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) April 26, 2024 We have known that fuel transfer capability is critical for the $3.5 NASA-SpaceX Lunar Starship program. SpaceX will test …
Elon discussed SpaceX plans to send a fleet of 1000-1200 Starships every two years to Mars. SpaceX Mars fleet operations would have huge challenges. The plan is to launch 1.5 million tons to orbit every two years. They would then send 250,000 tons to Mars. If every Mars-bound SpaceX Starship can take 250 tons of …
The SpaceX Raptor engines are becoming far more powerful and should reach over 330 tons of force while not needing a heat shield. Removing the need for a heat shield will lower the overall mass and increase the thrust to weight ratio. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …
SpaceX will build a permanently manned moonbase using many lunar Starships. The Lunar Starship will have landing legs, but no heat shield and no flaps. The Lunar Starships would only dock with tankers and would not land back on Earth. SpaceX has increased efforts and planning for a moonbase. Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa …
Elon Musk says the Long term cost of a single Starship launch can reach $2 million. The reusable payload of 200 tonnes would mean $10 per kilogram for launch cost. If engines were further improved to 250 tons of reusable payload the cost to orbit would be $8 per kilogram. Nextbigfuture notes that sending only …
Next month (May 2024), SpaceX will launch the fourth orbital launch test of the Super Heavy Starship. It will try to land a virtual tower. Elon thinks a successful Mechazilla tower catch is 80-90% for this year. IF that is successful then the fifth flight will try to land on the actual mechazilla tower. 00:00 …
I talked with Tim Ventura about technology. We discussed SpaceX, teslabot and nuclear power among other topics. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …
Elon Musk has targeted an orbital launch cost of $10/kg for Starship, with propellant costs accounting for roughly one-third. Orbital launch cost would be about four times more than the cost of point to point on Earth rocket delivery. Point to point rocket delivery would only need the Starship upper stage. There are only six …
SpaceX has a full duration static fire of six Raptor engines. Flight 4 Starship is on track for another orbital launch in about 5 weeks. Full-duration static fire of all six Raptor engines on Flight 4 Starship pic.twitter.com/HzS4SeaoEV — SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 25, 2024 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
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 …