FAA Declared SpaceX is Finally Catching Ship after Starship Flight 11 totally Mind-Blowing!
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FAA Declared SpaceX is Finally Catching Ship after Starship Flight 11 totally Mind-Blowing!
Landing a giant spacecraft is one of the craziest challenges SpaceX is taking on! Throughout the history of rocketry, no one, until SpaceX, had ever mastered the art of landing an orbital-class rocket. They pulled it off with Falcon 9, even with the mighty Falcon Heavy, and made it look like a piece of cake.
But landing Starship? That’s a whole different story. Its sheer size, power, and legless design make full reusability an order of magnitude more difficult.
Yet somehow, SpaceX believes they’ve found a way to make landing this monster easier than ever. So, what exactly are they planning to pull this off?
Let’s find out in today’s episode of Alpha Tech.
FAA Declared SpaceX is Finally Catching Ship after Starship Flight 11 totally Mind-Blowing!
In today’s space industry, there are three gigantic rockets that truly dominate in terms of scale and power, each one a bold symbol of humanity’s ambition to conquer the cosmos. First, we have Starship, SpaceX’s pride and the company’s biggest bet yet. Standing about 123 meters tall when fully stacked, it’s an absolute giant, both in size and power, and what’s even more exciting is that this number will only grow in the future. Next comes NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, standing 98 meters tall and built to carry astronauts back to the Moon under the Artemis program. And finally, there’s China’s Long March 10. It hasn’t launched yet, but it’s expected to reach around 114 meters when completed, a serious contender aiming to challenge Starship’s dominance. But if you put all three side by side, Starship easily outshines them all. Not because it’s the tallest, but because it’s designed to be fully reusable, something no other super heavy rocket has ever achieved.
FAA Declared SpaceX is Finally Catching Ship after Starship Flight 11 totally Mind-Blowing!
But as of now, Starship’s reusability is still just a goal, something SpaceX is still struggling to fully achieve. And the biggest challenge standing in the way? Landing Starship. Of course, when we talk about “landing,” we’re not referring to those splashdowns in the ocean, SpaceX has done plenty of those already. What we’re talking about is landing right at Mechazilla, where two massive chopsticks will catch Starship in midair, holding it suspended above the ground. This bold approach is meant to drastically cut down turnaround time, making it possible to prepare for the next flight faster than ever before.
Yeah, SpaceX hasn’t nailed it yet with the Starship upper stage, but this new landing approach has already been proven with the Super Heavy booster. They managed to bring it down right onto the tower during Flight 5, Flight 7, and Flight 8, and they made it look almost effortless. So… why not do the same with Starship, right?
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