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SpaceX UNVEILS NEW Plan To Catch Super Heavy!

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Elderberry:
Tech Bang 7/16/2021

SpaceX has been working on the Starship and Super Heavy to get people and payloads to the moon, Mars and hopefully other destinations in the future. To achieve this, the company has had to get really innovative and much of that effort has yielded into unprecedented successes that draw mankind's journey beyond earth nearer. In this video, we will be exploring SpaceX's latest plan for its super heavy booster upon the machine's descent back to earth.

SpaceX recently revealed its plans for the Starship rocket booster and its first orbital test flight. The mission will launch the craft from Texas and land off the coast of a Hawaiian island.
The Super Heavy booster is the first-stage launcher for the second-stage ship known as Starship. The Super Heavy will still very much use its engines to control its descent, similar to the current Falcon 9, and will also use its grid fins to control flight orientation. The company already started work to develop the Super Heavy rocket booster that will propel the Starship spacecraft into space, and the rocket will be the world’s most powerful rocket, fitted with 28 methane-fueled Raptor engines which will generate more than 16 million pounds of thrust from lift-off. Compared to the Saturn V rocket that launched NaSA’s Apollo missions to the lunar surface, the Super Heavy’s thrust is approximately double.

The flight could be a sign that it's finally time for human exploration to Mars, but first, the company must conduct a couple of successful unmanned test flights, before continuing with humans. The Super Heavy test flight is to gather as much data as possible that will enable better understanding of what the craft might experience in unpredictable flight conditions which cannot be replicated. The information will then be used to build better models for internal simulations. The flight will last a little over 90 minutes, and there is no specific date for the flight. Elon Musk has said that the company’s goal is to launch the orbital mission by July.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfroJZCPSs

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