Starship heavy booster landing back at the launch tower, six minutes and 52 seconds after launch.
Posted on 10/23/2024 4:33:33 AM PDT by marktwain
The world watched in amazement and awe as the SpaceX Starship performed its fifth test flight. The Starship is made mostly of stainless steel. Starship is the largest spaceship and rocket system ever built. It is designed to take 100-200 tons into orbit at a time. The booster (first stage) is about 233 feet tall. The cost to take a kilogram to orbit before SpaceX was about $11,000 to $13,000 per kilogram, or about $5000 to $6000 per pound. The Starship is projected to reduce the cost to orbit to $25-$15 per kilogram or $12-$7 per pound, a reduction of 99.8%.
The booster is about the shape of a crayon but almost 233 feet long and 30 feet wide. It drops back toward the launch site in a controlled descent to be recovered. In the last phase of the return flight, its motors slow the descent until it hovers on its exhaust next to the launch tower. Two large arms on the tower, called chopsticks, catch the vehicle and hold it. At that point, the engines cut off. The first test of the recovery system and the first successful recovery of the reusable booster occurred on October 13, 2024.
The upper orbital stage of the Starship came down a little later as part of the test. It successfully descended inside the buoys set for the test. It hovered for a few moments at the surface of the Indian Ocean before dropping into the water. In this test, the Starship was not meant to be recovered. The test was a complete success.
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Starship heavy booster landing back at the launch tower, six minutes and 52 seconds after launch.
Without RKBA, all your other rights go away the moment anybody manages to whip up an angry mob against you.
Mobs are hesitant to go at armed men defending their homes and families.
We should accept that the Old World always creates the New - somewhere else.
Our colonies will flip us The Bird as they prosper on other worlds.
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, and interstellar travel is currently impractical.
What you say is, of course, correct. People have a hard time grasping the enormity of time, though.
It was centuries between Columbus landing in North America, and the American Revolution.
The tiny decades since Man landed on the Moon, show enormous change, as that picture so eloquently demonstrates.
I just note that Columbus and America could not save Old Europe, though.
Great article. The genius of the Constitution. The genius of Elon Musk.
... in fact, it’s cold as hell!
And there’s no one there to raise them - if you did.
Hence President Trump's "Senior Advisor" in charge of eliminating detrimental agencies, redundancies and waste (a 'Secretary of Shrinkage' if you will).
I would rather my tax dollars be used efficiently on earth rather than wasted on Mars, Jupiter, nebulas, black holes, etc.....
Without the 2nd all other amendments will fall.
I would argue that we have lost the First Amendment, already, as America has no Free Press, at all.
This only drives home the importance of maintaining the Second.
We saved "Old Europe" four times - once with Doughboys, once with G.I.s., once with the Marshall Plan, and once with NATO.
(I understand your sentiment, however.)
Regards,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/space-race-inventions-we-use-every-day-were-created-for-space-exploration/39580591/
Was this written for/by a five-year-old unfamiliar with "a cylinder"?
RKBA? What are you talking about? It’s good writing to fully name the source of the acronym before you use it. For instance: Rotten Kittens Bakery Access (RKBA) is a new government access program for cats hardest hit by global warming. RKBA Is a scam.
“I would rather my tax dollars be used efficiently on earth rather than wasted on Mars, Jupiter, nebulas, black holes, etc.....”
While I support the exploration of Mars, I do not support sending trillions and trillions of dollars to Mars.
Elon, for those that do not know, envisions in the next 10 years, thousands, and I do mean thousands, of spaceships headed to Mars and back. He wants 10 or more launches per day headed to Mars. He sees 1,000 ships going to Mars and 1,000 on their way back at all times.
This would bleed trillions of dollars from our economy as Mars would provide nothing in return.
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