Take Spacex a big step towards a high -heavy support for Starship

Spacex suffers from a problem in the top stage in Starship After a consecutive failureBut engineers are making remarkable progress with the massive supporter of the missiles.

The most obvious sign Spacex It achieves the first phase of the first stage of Starship – called Super Heavy – at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am US ES; 14:40 UTC) on Thursday at the company’s Starbase’s launch site in South Texas. With an unambiguous explosion of orange exhaust, Spacex launched a super heavy supporter, which already contains the edge of the space. The burning lasted about eight seconds.

This was the first time that Spacex has tested a “proven, highly heavy” heavy enhancement, and it paves the way for this appointed-enhanced 14-flying missile soon. Confirm Spacex Update for the 14th supporter, which was previously It was launched and returned to the ground in JanuaryIt will happen in the next StarsHip launch with a fixed fire test on Thursday, and Booster 14 appears to be more ready to fly more than any Boosters in Spacex’s Factory, a short distance from the launch site.

Spacex said that 29 RAPTOR engines fed by 33 methane are installed on flying. “The first heavy reuse of heavy will be a step towards our goal of touching the touch.”

A successful rehabilitation of super heavy support will be an important milestone for the mouth program, while engineers are struggling with problems in the upper stage of missiles, known as the ship.

What a difference

Super Heavy engines are able to produce nearly 17 million pounds of payment, twice the power of Saturn V in NASA, which sent astronauts towards the moon. Super Heavy may be the most complex missile supporter ever. It is definitely the biggest. To learn about the size of this supporter, imagine the fuselage from the Jumbo Jumbo plane that stands at the end.

Spacex has now launched eight full -scale test flights, with a very heavy strengthening and the top stage of the Starship Championship together to form a 404 -foot missile (123.1 meters). The performance of the supportive part of the missile was well so far, with seven successful consecutive launch operations since failing the Starship Championship for the first time.

Recently, Spacex has regained three very heavy reinforcements in four attempts. Spacex has a wealth of experience in restoring and reusing Falcon 9. The total number of falcon missile landing is now 426.

Spacex re -used Falcon 9 Booster for the first time in March 2017. This was an operating trip with a telecommunications satellite on a mission of several hundred million dollars.

Before Milestone Falcon 9 Reflight eight years ago, Spacex spent nearly a year renewing and re -testing the missile after returning from its first mission. The missile achieved more miles on the ground than it was during the trip, as it first returned to its launch base in Florida on a SPACEX drone and then moved by truck to the Spacex headquarters in Hawthorne, California, to perform comprehensive inspections and renewal.

Once the engineers were completed, they transferred the supporter to the SPACEX test site in McGregor, Texas, to conduct tests, then finally returned the missile to Florida to the final launch settings.

There will be no such a journey for highly heavy support. First of all, it is difficult to transfer it more than the shortest and shortest than Falcon 9. Super Heavy is also characterized by enlightening improvements in the lessons learned in the Falcon 9.