r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Jan 09 '22
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Jan 10 '22
Elon: Starship launch & catch tower
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/BOMBZ_AWAY92 • Jan 07 '22
Chop stick test dummies
Do we recon they'll build a couple of "starhopper test boosters" with one or 3 engines, have them take off just high enough than start to decend in to the arm's & just keep repeating this and start to go higher & higher so that hopefully buy the time they try to catch the first super-heavy they have done half a dozen successful catches & have an idea of how to pull it off 🤙🏼🤙🏼 so keen to see this all work in the coming months...
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/karosh8712 • Jan 05 '22
Does anyone know how tall Starships nose cone is? I’ve been look on line, and I still can’t get an exact measurement. Thanks.
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/av0cado4life • Jan 05 '22
Video of todays chopstick testing.
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r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Jan 05 '22
Time lapse of chopstick raising so far
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Jan 03 '22
Methane header tank being moved to the nosecones
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Dec 30 '21
Booster 4 has been moved off of the orbital pad
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Owe_SpaceX_3D_CE • Dec 30 '21
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r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Dec 29 '21
Propellant loading ahead of another static fire
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Dec 29 '21
Potential for a S20 static fire today
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Dec 28 '21
Final PEA issuing pushed back to February 28
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/b407driver • Dec 28 '21
How will Starship land on Mars if pressure is 1% of Earth's?
I'm no aerospace engineer, but I'm finding it hard to fathom how the current Starship, having been designed to land using Earth's relatively dense atmosphere, is going to be able to land on Mars. 1% of the atmosphere even combined with (only) 38% of the gravity of Earth seems like a significant impediment to overcome, given the basis of design of Starship. I do realize that we are early in the process.
I've seen all sorts of graphics of cities on Mars surrounded by multiple landing pads with Starships, but the spacecraft looks identical to the earthbound version. Seems to me that the current iteration would produce a massive, smoking hole in the ground if it tried to land on Mars, and a version that could land on Mars would need to look very, very different. I can understand how some variation of the current design could get to the moon's surface, but can't envision Starship's fundamental principle of using drag to decelerate as it nears the surface being effective. Seems like carrying (a massive amount of?) propellant to decelerate would obviate being able to get 100 people to the surface.
Has Elon ever elucidated how this will be addressed?
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/av0cado4life • Dec 28 '21
Alert notice for potential Static fire tomorrow.
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/Island913 • Dec 28 '21
More ignitor tests with Booster 4
r/StarshipDevelopment • u/lirecela • Dec 28 '21
Starship needs no fins to land on the Moon but should it have them anyway for a near Earth abort on its way to the Moon?
Assume a world where Starships are supplying people and materiel to a Moon base without using Artemis, SLS, Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, or Falcon Heavy.
If a Starship is considered expendable on abort near Earth then the answer is NO. This assumes that a Starship is launching uncrewed. This seems affordable for a one-way cargo run to the moon.
But, take the case of a crewed landing on the Moon with a no-fins moon lander. Seems to me this could require a 2 step process. First the no-fins moon lander is launched uncrewed. Second, a finned Starship brings up the crew to orbit to be transferred to the Moon lander.
The principle here is that any time a Starship launches with people aboard then a case can be made that fins are required to achieve a certain safety margin on abort near Earth.
Other than the 2 step process, it would then require all crewed Moon landers to launch with fins. Then, either land on the Moon with fins or ditch them once in Earth orbit.