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SpaceX's First Successful Recovery of a "Starship": A Great Feat in Space History
Is it that hard to clamp a rocket?
Before last night's successful SpaceX test, few space experts were convinced that Musk was dreaming.
First of all, this idea has no precedent to learn from, it is completely blank innovation technology, and a starship is the largest and most powerful rocket in human history, about 125 meters high, with a full fuel weight of more than 5,000 tons, let such a skyscraper back from space, but also back to the launch pad, but also in the air clamped it, super heavy rocket needs to return to Earth, Keeping the rocket in position and thrusting and slowing down, the robotic arm on the launch pad must be extremely flexible and strong to capture and stabilize the fast-moving rocket. The accuracy of the landing position should be within 0.5cm. Because the robotic arm uses a buckle design, it needs the rocket to accurately land in the designated position and then get stuck, its actual operation is very difficult, and experts dare not think about it, but Musk directly combated it.
First of all, this idea has no precedent to learn from, it is completely blank innovation technology, and a starship is the largest and most powerful rocket in human history, about 125 meters high, with a full fuel weight of more than 5,000 tons, let such a skyscraper back from space, but also back to the launch pad, but also in the air clamped it, super heavy rocket needs to return to Earth, Keeping the rocket in position and thrusting and slowing down, the robotic arm on the launch pad must be extremely flexible and strong to capture and stabilize the fast-moving rocket. The accuracy of the landing position should be within 0.5cm. Because the robotic arm uses a buckle design, it needs the rocket to accurately land in the designated position and then get stuck, its actual operation is very difficult, and experts dare not think about it, but Musk directly combated it.
Why have to clip a rocket in the air?
All these tests are for the development of commercial space, and today's historic moment will bring new lessons for space agencies around the world.
For the future of commercial space can be said to be confusing, and Musk proposed that starships should be like aircraft flights, with frequent and orderly operation, but also to achieve very low costs, otherwise, ordinary people can not afford to pay, so the starship used cheap stainless steel alloy materials, as well as liquid oxygen methane fuel, which is a man-made natural gas.
For the future of commercial space can be said to be confusing, and Musk proposed that starships should be like aircraft flights, with frequent and orderly operation, but also to achieve very low costs, otherwise, ordinary people can not afford to pay, so the starship used cheap stainless steel alloy materials, as well as liquid oxygen methane fuel, which is a man-made natural gas.
The cost is only a tenth of that of kerosene fuel, and reusable rockets can take at least a day to land vertically on land and haul to the launch pad. To make the starship frequent launch to reduce unnecessary time, Musk proposed that the starship return to the launch tower directly clamp, so that after simple maintenance, half an hour after adding fuel, in an hour can continue to launch, to achieve the same launch frequency as aircraft flights, ordinary people can pay the price, which is the prototype of the future commercial space.
SpaceX's first successful recovery of the Starship is a great milestone in the development of space technology. It not only shows the outstanding strength of SpaceX in space technology but also brings more possibilities for human exploration of the future of the universe. This event will forever be engraved in the annals of space history and become a powerful driving force to inspire future generations to continue to explore the unknown universe.
SpaceX's first successful recovery of the Starship is a great milestone in the development of space technology. It not only shows the outstanding strength of SpaceX in space technology but also brings more possibilities for human exploration of the future of the universe. This event will forever be engraved in the annals of space history and become a powerful driving force to inspire future generations to continue to explore the unknown universe.
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