SpaceX Starship Splashdown is more important than you think! NASA Is Shocked
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0:00-0:37 : Intro
0:38-1:34 : Starship splash down
1:35-6:46 : Why
6:47-8:43 : New launch tower
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SpaceX Starship Splashdown is more important than you think! NASA Is Shocked
The starship splash down into the sea.
All of us want Starship to return to Starbase grandly. But the path to that vision is indeed not easy.
Even Elon Musk has indicated this: (23:03)“We want to have at least two consecutive successes of a given design, land at a specific point in the ocean, or smash into a specific point of the ocean before we try to bring it back to the launch site”
So, how will SpaceX and Elon Musk make the Starship splash down into the sea?
Why doesn’t SpaceX land Starship on a drone ship like Falcon 9?
Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
SpaceX Starship Splashdown is more important than you think! NASA Is Shocked
As we all know, Starship has gone through three explosive launches, but what SpaceX has gained is invaluable. These can be considered foundational launches according to SpaceX’s development plan, and this will not significantly hinder the goals SpaceX is about to achieve.
For the fourth Starship launch, as outlined by CEO Elon Musk: “We’ll get through the high-heating regime and smash into the ocean at a controlled spot.”
SpaceX Starship Splashdown is more important than you think! NASA Is Shocked
SpaceX will test-launch the super-heavy spacecraft into orbit, and it will attempt to land on a virtual tower.
This means that in reality, Starship and Super Heavy will have to perform a controlled landing on the ocean. The spacecraft will hover precisely over a specific point in the ocean until it runs out of fuel and then falls down.
This method will indeed bring many advantages for SpaceX. The clearest evidence of this is what they did when practicing landing the Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea—they had to try several times before they were confident enough to perform it on a real drone.
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