Finally, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, announced it this Thursday April 20th THE spaceship launch“the largest and most powerful rocket ever built”.
Once the Technical Problems who forced suspend take-off last Monday, April 17, the ship would have already been ready to start its first test flight.
The launch of the Starship will take place from small mouthsouth of Texasin the United States.
the window of launchwhich will last 62 minutes, will open at 8:28 local time (10:28 in Argentina) and will close at 9:30 local time (11:30 in Argentina), the company said on its website.
What will the launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket look like?
He spaceship launch it was scheduled for Monday 17 in the morning, but the company has decided suspend it because the technicians have discovered that a pressurization valve it was frozen shortly before takeoff.
However, and despite this, a fake countdown for the next attempt this Thursday 20.
The super rocket designed to carry people to Earth’s orbit, the Moon and Mars, is based on starbaseon the Texas coast, and consists of a ship (spaceship) it’s a thruster (super heavy rocket) fully integrated.
spaceship it’s a fully reusable carrying system designed to carry both crew – up to about 100 people – and cargo into Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon and travel to Mars and beyond, it says SpaceX on your website.
What is Starship like: a big rocket
THE height of the spaceship AND 120 meters (394 feet), the diameter AND 9 meters (29.5 feet).
He spaceship it is stainless steel, has 33 main engines and 16.7 million pounds of thrust. Given its strength, spaceship could bring on 250 tons and welcome 100 people Traveling to Mars.
The SpaceX team has carried out multiple suborbital flight tests of the upper stage of spaceshipwhich helped validate the vehicle design.
The tests proved it spaceship it can fly through the subsonic entry phase before restarting the engines and transitioning into a vertical configuration for landing.
In addition to the trial of the upper stage of spaceshipthe team conducted extensive tests of the Super Heavy rocket, including firing the largest number of engines simultaneously in history.
The Starship team also built the the tallest rocket launch and capture tower in the worldAlmost 146 meters (nearly 500 feet) tall.
Starship: How is the test plan
He the test flight will last an hour and a half and will not fully orbit the Earth. If he spaceship reaches three minutes after launch, the booster will be ordered to separate and fall into the Gulf of Mexico.
THE spaceship It will continue east, passing over the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans before crashing near Hawaii.
He spaceship it’s designed to be fully reusable, but nothing will be saved from the test flight. Harvard astrophysicist and spacecraft tracker, jonathan mcdowellYou will be very excited when the rocket lands and returns from orbit intact.
It will be “a profound event in spaceflight, as long as Starship is debugged and operational,” he said.
Source: Clarin
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