First, let's look at the aspect of SpaceX: Clearly, this flight is considered to mark a huge new development step for the company. The orbital flight is the first time that SpaceX has produced a full-size prototype with two integrated parts. Together, Starship and Super Heavy will be nearly 120m tall when stacked for the launch. It is the largest monster on the planet ever built. Simultaneously with this mission, unlike the flight test the altitude is only about 10km above sea level. At the current plan, Ship 24 and Super heavy Booster 7 will make the longest flight ever. It will fly out of Earth's orbit, flying "3/4 of the way around the Earth". Because this is the longest flight, the flight time is the longest as well. This is a flight that is considered a new leap for SpaceX.
Second, the Starship’s first orbital test flight, though audacious in scale, but will have the task of providing a rich source of data for further trips in the future, Mars.
SpaceX intends to collect as much data as possible during flight to quantify entry dynamics and better understand what the vehicle experiences in a flight regime that is extremely difficult to accurately predict or replicate computationally. This data will anchor any changes in vehicle design or CONOPs (concept of operations) after the first flight and build better models for us to use in our internal simulations.
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SpaceX's huge Starship rocket for eventual trips to the Moon and Mars could go orbital for the
first time in just a few weeks from now if all goes according to Elon Musk's plan.
Immediately, this flight is becoming the focus of the whole world's attention
with 200 countries and thousands of newspapers reporting on the launch.
Well, this isn't the first time, so this leads to some questions.
What's the reason this rocket launch makes the whole world pay attention?
Why Starship's first orbital flight is even more important than SpaceX thought?
Well, it's time to find out everything about this interesting subject.
First, let's look at the aspect of SpaceX. Clearly, this flight is considered to be a huge
new development step for the company. The orbital flight is the first time that SpaceX has produced
a full-size prototype with two integrated parts. Together, Starship and Super Heavy will be nearly
120 meters tall when stacked for launch. It's the largest monster on the planet ever built.
Simultaneously with this mission, unlike the flight test, the altitude is only about 10
kilometers above sea level. At current plan, Ship 24 and Super Heavy Booster 7 will make
the longest flight ever. It will fly out of Earth's orbit, flying three-fourths of the
way around the Earth. Because this is the longest flight, the flight time is the longest as well.
This is a flight that's considered a new leap for SpaceX.
Second, the Starship's first orbital test flight, though audacious in scale,
will have the task of providing a rich source of data for further trips in the future,
Mars. SpaceX intends to collect as much data as possible during flight to quantify entry dynamics
and better understand what the vehicle experiences in a flight regime, and that's extremely difficult
to accurately predict or replicate computationally. This data will anchor any changes in vehicle
design or CONOPS, conception of operations, after the first flight and build better models
for them to use in internal simulation. Third, this orbital flight will help SpaceX
solidify its lead in the space race. Previously, people knew that SpaceX was famous for its Falcon
9, which is a partially reusable rocket that has saved a lot of money and time for the company with
every launch. However, seeing some limitations that Falcon 9 could not bring to the company,
they decided to build another line of rockets, more powerful, larger scale, able to achieve
the dream of bringing Elon Musk return to his planet Mars, as everyone jokes. If Starship
succeeds, SpaceX would further solidify its lead in the space race, becoming the first company to
be able to build a fully reusable rocket capable of carrying the largest payload and can conquer
all space surfaces like the moon and Mars and beyond. At the same time, when its position has
been proven, SpaceX easily becomes a reliable partner of other space companies and organizations.
Following that, they'll be able to earn additional revenue from signed contracts.
Only with SpaceX would certainly be flawed to talk about the meaning of this flight.
Let's be honest, after SpaceX, NASA is definitely the one most looking forward to this flight.
The agency has already made a bet on Starship with its selection as the human landing system
for Artemis, the largest cutting-edge vehicle now on the critical path to land humans on the moon,
NASA's most ambitious human spaceflight program in half a century. As a result,
NASA is watching every step of the development of SpaceX Starship.
Next, it can't be denied that this orbital flight has implications for the entire space industry
and our planet. This flight will open the door to orbital tourist flights,
which could render the aircraft industry obsolete. It's also one of the goals of SpaceX.
They want it to take people from place to place on the planet, making most long-distance trips
in less than 30 minutes and going anywhere around the world in under one hour. The space industry
will also develop a new leap forward. It's getting closer to the goal of sending humans to the moon
and Mars in the future. If SpaceX succeeds with Starship, it could become a new trend for other
companies to develop reusable rockets to build cheaper rockets and reduce turnaround launch
times between flights. In particular, this flight is of great significance to the human science.
This flight might unlock the solar system and beyond. Scientists are starting to think about
what they might be allowed to do. A paper published by NASA Ames Research Center explored
some of the scientific opportunities that might be opened by a mission to the moon and Mars.
It is possible to carry full-sized equipment from Earth without having to miniaturize it into a
smaller vehicle, which is what was done for the Apollo mission to the moon. Heldman says that
you could bring a full drilling rig. You could drill a kilometer as we do on Earth. Ice and
other useful resources are thought to be present in the interior of the moon and Mars. Heldman
says that before, such an idea was a bit insane. There's lots of reasons to be excited about what
Starship could do if it succeeds. However, there's lots of good reasons to be cautious.
We've yet to see the full rocket launch. Despite the fact that Starship has flown test flights
without the super-heavy booster, the proposed method to reach the moon and Mars is complex
and is not yet proven. The orbital flight of Starship will certainly help us solve these
problems. Well, the significance of this flight, though, is incredible, and I'm sure all of us will
wonder, how much does it cost to do an orbital launch? So far, Elon Musk or SpaceX has not revealed
any information to us about the production costs for the flight, but we can see the company has
invested a lot of money in Starship as well as the infrastructure at Starbase in prep for this launch.
In an interview with CNN Business in September 2019, Musk said that when all is done developing
Starship would cost probably $2 billion or $3 billion. That's a pretty hefty sum.
Likewise, construction costs. SpaceX pushed the list price of its Falcon 9 rocket at $54 million
in 2019, exclusive of costs to fuel and launch it. If you assume that Starship with four times
Falcon's payload costs roughly four times as much to build, this implies that building a single
Starship might cost roughly $216 million, which is about the cost of a Boeing 767 airplane.
In fact, they might cost a bit less than that. Instead of the expensive aluminum-lithium alloy
that Falcon's built from, Starship is made of steel that costs SpaceX only $3 a kilogram.
This helps SpaceX cut a lot of flight costs. Elon Musk hopes to be able to reuse Starship
many times and optimize the costs to only about $2 million for each launch. After all,
right now everyone is eagerly awaiting the flight, but SpaceX still needs to conduct more tests
for Ship 24 and Booster 7. In addition, SpaceX has not been approved for the environmental
assessment by the FAA, so no specific time has been set for the flight.
Let's hope that everything will be well soon for SpaceX and for all of us.
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