THE STARSHIP PROJECT
The starship system is a fully rapidly reusable rocket or spaceship or a launch vehicle. It composes of two stages.. honestly, the first stage booster is jaw-droppingly huge.
The first stage booster is called "SUPER HEAVY".
The second stage is called "STARSHIP".
<<<< SIZE COMPARED TO A HUMAN >>>>
The Starship second stage is being designed to be a long‑duration cargo and passenger‑carrying spacecraft and lander.
UPDATE 1 : BEGINNING
Starship vehicle development began in 2016 as a self‑funded private spaceflight project, four years after work began on the Raptor engine that powers it.
<<<< FIRST STAGE (SUPER HEAVY) >>>>
UPDATE 2 : TESTING
Testing of the Starship second stage began in 2019 with low-velocity launches and landings.
<<<< HOPPER >>>>
And the high-altitude descent was tested until May 2021, when Starship SN15 became the first prototype to successfully complete a high-altitude test flight and be recovered after 6 failures.
<<<< SN15 >>>>
The Starship system is designed to carry passengers and cargo to destinations including low Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
On 16 April 2021, NASA selected SpaceX to develop a modified crew-rated Starship vehicle to serve as the lunar lander in the Artemis program.
UPDATE 3 : NAME
The starship mission was first known as "BFR"(Big Falcon Rocket).
In 2018, it was renamed "STARSHIP".
UPDATE 4 : MATERIAL
Elon Musk announced that the whole Starship (2nd and 1st stage) will be made of enhanced stainless steel.
WHAT!!
SpaceX has redesigned stainless steel so that it posses of 12% to 18% ductility so that it withstands -330 F (minus 330 Fahrenheit). So that it is Very ductile, very tough.No fracture issues.
Stainless steel has a high melting point as well.
The carbon fiber is 10,000 ruppee per kilogram
The steel is 220 ruppee per kilogram.
THAT'S BUSINESS.
UPDATE 5 : MID-OCEAN LAUNCH AND LANDING
In July 2020, SpaceX began to buy two deepwater oil rigs from Valaris for 26 crores rupees each. These platforms, later renamed Deimos and Phobos (after the two Martian moons), will be modified into two floating launch platforms for Super Heavy/Starship orbital launches.
UPDATE 6: TRY, FAIL, LEARN
On Dec 2020, SN8 was launched (12.5 Km) but failed due to an incomplete landing burn.
On Feb 2021, SN9 was attempted (10 Km) but failed due to the failure of igniting the engines while landing.
On March 2021, SN10 was successfully launched and landed but exploded after landing.
On 5 May 2021, Starship SN15 flew to an altitude of 10 km, landed, and was recovered successfully.
UPDATE 7 : PROPULSION
The methane/oxygen‑propellant Raptor engines will be the main propulsion system on Starship. Starship will use three sea‑level optimized Raptor engines and three vacuum‑optimized Raptor engines.
<<<< RAPTOR ENGINE >>>>
SEA LEVEL (LEFT) VACUUM (RIGHT)
TYPES OF STARSHIP:
(1) Surface Cargo Starship:
A vehicle capable of delivering large payloads to the surface of other celestial bodies.
(2) Orbital Cargo Starship:
A vehicle that is capable of transporting and placing spacecraft into orbit.
(3) Tanker:
A cargo‑only propellant tanker to support the refilling of propellants in Earth orbit.
(4) Lunar‑surface‑to‑orbit transport:
A variant of Starship without airbrakes or heat shielding and also equipped with a docking port on the nose, additional landing engines, and have white paint.
A large, long‑duration spacecraft capable of carrying passengers or cargo to interplanetary destinations, low Earth orbit, or Earth‑to‑Earth spaceflight. However, hundreds of flights of cargo variants are expected first.
THE STARSHIP SECOND STAGE (SUPER HEAVY) IS TO BE TESTED STATIC ON OR AFTER 14.07.2021.
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