Only a few weeks remain before the first flight of SpaceX’s super-heavy rocket and Starship spacecraft. After several delays in the launch of the company, there are new posts on Twitter. seems to portend good news.
Recently SpaceX shared video where it lets us see the connection of the starship with the heavyweight. Now new images shared via flickr, we propose to update the trailer that allows us to observe the rocket at the Starbase launch site, in Boca Chica (Texas). It will be from here where will take off to finally put a huge spaceship into orbit.
Before the flight, SpaceX guarantees that will conduct a series of “wet general tests”. In this way, they will guide the rocket through several necessary procedures before launch.
This process is necessary because inform the engineers if there are any defects in the design or in the procedures to be followed. Upon completion, Super Heavy and Starship will likely undergo one final series of pre-flight tests.
“The team is conducting a series of tests ahead of Starship’s first test flight in the coming weeks, including full-scale testing and the launch of all 33 Raptor Booster 7 engines.”
SpaceX from twitter
When can we see the first flight of Starship over Super Heavy?
While we still don’t have an official date, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has previously reported that first flight could take place next month. Likewise, the company’s official report periodically mentions that the launch into orbit will take place “in the next few weeks”, so everything seems to be moving in the right direction.
Starship has delayed its test flight several times. One of them happened in 2021 when the first launch was delayed for environmental reasons. Then, at the beginning of 2022, everything seemed to indicate that we would see a take-off, which, of course, did not happen. The third time is lovely, so maybe we’ll see a SpaceX ship and rocket launch soon.
A new generation of ships promises to take us much further
For its part, the Super Heavy rocket will take off with an astonishing 17 million pounds (7,590 tons of thrust) during launch. A) Yes, It will quickly become the most powerful ever flown.. In fact, by comparison, NASA’s most powerful rocket, the SLS, which carried the Orion spacecraft to the moon, has only 8.8 million pounds of thrust (3,987 tons of thrust). That’s still more than an impressive number, but Super Heavy promises so much more.
With this power, the launch of SpaceX’s super-heavy rocket and spacecraft promises to be an unseen spectacle. Besides, if everything goes well, will allow NASA to advance its plans for manned missions to the Moon. Once this first goal is reached, Mars will be the next celestial body to reach.
For the Artemis III mission, NASA will use a modified version of the starship. send the first woman and the first black man to the moon. If everything goes the right way, it should happen at some point in 2025. But that’s not the end of Starship, as SpaceX also wants to fly its own missions, as in the case of DearMoon, with the company intending to take nine people to fly over the lunar surface.
Though the future seems bright There’s still a lot to be done. We will continue to look forward to the first test flight of the impressive Super Heavy rocket and Starship spacecraft. Until then, all that remains is to follow the activities of SpaceX on their social networks.
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