SpaceX announced on Friday that the company is targeting “mid-November” for the second flight test of the Super Heavy rocket and its Starship upper stage.
Three more engines failed during ascent, and after a couple of minutes, the vehicle was ultimately destroyed by its flight termination system as it veered off course.
In the months since, with its characteristic rapid pace, SpaceX has completely rebuilt the launch pad and instituted a water sound suppression system to dampen the energy of liftoff.
Part of the review by the Fish and Wildlife Service is to ensure that these measures will adequately mitigate the explosive power of the rocket’s ignition and departure from the launch site.
“Obviously, that results in kind of blasting the booster, so you’ve got to protect the top of the boost stage from getting incinerated by the upper stage engines,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk said earlier this year, adding that the design change would add a roughly 10 percent improvement to the Starship rocket’s payload capacity.
The goal, instead, is to prove the flight capabilities of the Super Heavy rocket and, if the stack reaches separation, the performance of Starship.
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SpaceX announced on Friday that the company is targeting “mid-November” for the second flight test of the Super Heavy rocket and its Starship upper stage.
Three more engines failed during ascent, and after a couple of minutes, the vehicle was ultimately destroyed by its flight termination system as it veered off course.
In the months since, with its characteristic rapid pace, SpaceX has completely rebuilt the launch pad and instituted a water sound suppression system to dampen the energy of liftoff.
Part of the review by the Fish and Wildlife Service is to ensure that these measures will adequately mitigate the explosive power of the rocket’s ignition and departure from the launch site.
“Obviously, that results in kind of blasting the booster, so you’ve got to protect the top of the boost stage from getting incinerated by the upper stage engines,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk said earlier this year, adding that the design change would add a roughly 10 percent improvement to the Starship rocket’s payload capacity.
The goal, instead, is to prove the flight capabilities of the Super Heavy rocket and, if the stack reaches separation, the performance of Starship.
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