Udany test lotu Starshipa SN5 BY ADAM KRZYSZTOF PIECH ON 6 SIERPNIA 2020
(...) Był to pierwszy lot prototypu pojazdu Starship, wykorzystującego nowe zbiorniki paliwa zbudowane już w pełnej skali, które będą niezbędne do ukończenia docelowej wersji pojazdu. Można zakładać, że w kolejnych testach SpaceX będzie wykonywał loty na coraz większą wysokość, wydłużając jednocześnie czas pracy silnika rakietowego. W ramach przeprowadzonego lotu dokonano również testów systemu naprowadzania, a także – do pewnego stopnia – wytrzymałości nowej konstrukcji. Sam lot trwał około 45 sekund. (...)
Lot testowy Starship SN5 (SpaceX)
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https://kosmonauta.net/2020/08/udany-test-lotu-starshipa-sn5/SpaceX clears big hurdle on next-gen Starship rocket programAugust 5, 2020 Stephen Clark
Credit: Video frame from live stream by @SpacePadreIsle.(...) “We’ll do several short hops to smooth out launch process, then go high altitude with body flaps,” Musk tweeted Tuesday night.
The higher-altitude experiments will require SpaceX to install an aerodynamic nose cone on future Starship vehicles, along with fins and other aerosurfaces. Higher flights will also need three Raptor engines, before SpaceX finally goes to a six-engine Starship configuration for orbital missions, which will also require a heat shield for re-entry.
With the nose cone added, the Starship vehicle reach a height of around 164 feet, or 50 meters. The vehicle that flew Tuesday measures around 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter, about one-and-a-half times the diameter of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
Combined with the Super Heavy first stage, the entire stack will stand around 394 feet (120 meters) tall. The Super Heavy will be powered by more than 30 Raptor engines, according to SpaceX, making it the most powerful rocket ever built — generating some 16 million pounds of thrust.
An operational Starship could haul more than 100 metric tons, or 220,000 pounds, of cargo to low Earth orbit, SpaceX says. (...)
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