Musk just revealed NEW PLAN for Ship 24&B7-SpaceX’s orbital flight test campaign finally begins
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You probably won’t believe but there is a fact that Elon Musk, the CEO of 4 big companies at the same time, has been missing deadlines since he was a kid.
Fans of his space company that has been following the development of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket are by now used to the first orbital launch milestone being postponed multiple times. However, looking at how SpaceX is rushing testing Booster 7 & Ship 24, Elon Musk’s latest milestone for Starship is probably no longer an empty promise.
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As Elon Musk says repeatedly, he created a rocket company because he wanted to colonize Mars. His fervent argument is that humanity must spread to a second planet as insurance for long-term survival. Starship, a giant rocket, is the centerpiece of his ambitions.
The ship with the Super Heavy booster is essentially a rocket as powerful as a Saturn 5, which took NASA’s Apollo astronauts to the moon 50 years ago, but it’s fully reusable. For Apollo, everything but the small capsule on top, where the astronauts sat, was discarded along the way, and even the capsule could only be used once.
While most rockets these days have more utilitarian appearances, SpaceX’s prototype resembles something from an old sci-fi movie of the 1950s.
In part, that is because, in its rush to get the prototypes to the launchpad, SpaceX has not bothered with such aesthetic niceties as paint. But there also are good engineering reasons for the choice of material.
Mr. Musk originally had planned to use high-tech carbon fiber but switched to stainless steel. Steel is heavier than carbon fiber and aluminum, another common material used for rockets, but it is also cheaper — about 2 percent of the cost of carbon fiber, Mr. Musk said — and has a higher melting temperature that can more easily withstand the heat of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Musk just revealed NEW PLAN for Ship 24&B7-SpaceX’s orbital flight test campaign finally begins
