Elon Musk just revealed CRAZY PLANS to build NEW MECHAZILLA in Florida…
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Earlier this year, Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX plans to ultimately move Starship operations to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Under the plan, SpaceX immediately built an orbital launch tower there. Until now, that tower has been fully stacked with 9 segments.
But the surprise is that the company is continuing to build another MECHAZILLA that is likely destined for installation on the Cape side of the Florida spaceport.
Wow, this is an extremely crazy plan!
So, find out everything about this in today’s episode of Alpha tech:
Throughout 2021, politicians debated the benefits of the launch complex, lawyers dueled over regulations, and environmentalists raised concerns about how the giant rocket factory and growing launch site would impact wildlife.
All the while, SpaceX doggedly constructed an elaborate launchpad at Boca Chica, including a 480-foot-tall launch tower. Musk has nicknamed the tower Mechazilla due to two beefy robotic arms that the company plans to use to catch the giant boosters as they land at the same pad they launched from. “Ready to refly in under an hour,” he tweeted.
A shift occurred in April 2021 when NASA awarded SpaceX $2.89 billion to develop a version of Starship to use as the lunar landing vehicle during the first crewed return to the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule will carry the astronauts to lunar orbit, where they will board a waiting Starship vehicle that will ferry them to the surface.
This role in NASA’s moonshot pushed Starship operations toward Kennedy Space Center, home to NASA’s human spaceflight operations since they began. Work there has ramped up during the FAA certification at Boca Chica Beach.
So far, teams continue to work on outfitting and systems installed on the Orbital Launch Mount inside Hanger M at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Elon Musk just revealed CRAZY PLANS to build NEW MECHAZILLA in Florida…
