Oh, my. That’s a hell of a burden to carry. Primarily meant to enable more efficient landings in Earth’s atmosphere, adding a third engine to that cluster would logically increase the chances of a successful (or at least survivable) landing in the event that one engine fails. Starship SN9 di SpaceX, test ad alta quota non prima del 12 gennaio. As such, it’s hard to say if that lone Raptor was still producing substantial thrust or if it was in the throes of a catastrophic failure. What information does the FAA need? Starship (vormals BFR) ist ein Großraketenprojekt des US-amerikanischen Raumfahrtunternehmens SpaceX.Die geplante Rakete besteht aus dem Booster Super Heavy und einer ebenfalls Starship genannten oberen Stufe, die zugleich als Raumschiff dienen soll. Head of host team. Musk is basically right about FAA’s regulations making multiple launches more difficult. Starship prototype Serial Number 9, or SN9, aimed to fly as high as 10 kilometers, or about 32,800 feet altitude. Information about the cause of the delay was sparse, but that didn’t stop people from speculating and attacking the FAA for dragging its feet, even sabotaging the company’s efforts. save. After a round of aborted attempts, SpaceX is conducting another static fire test with Starship SN9 in Boca Chica, Texas. 106 comments. On Thursday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk weighed in on Twitter to blame the agency’s bureaucracy. Similar to previous high-altitude flight tests, Starship Serial Number 11 (SN11) was powered through ascent by three Raptor engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to the vehicle reaching apogee – approximately 10 km in altitude. In SpaceX and Musk’s defense, however, there are also several good reasons to use as few Raptor engines as possible. Daher durfte das Spaceship SN9 nicht starten. Starship SN9 needs two Raptor engines switched after 3 successful static fire tests. While a three-engine burn all the way to touchdown appears to be extremely risky or impossible for present-day Starships, Musk implied that there was nothing preventing SpaceX from reigniting all three engines during the initial flip and landing burn and using that time to determine the health of all three engines. If one engine failed to restart or lost thrust shortly after ignition, the other two would already be active and able to take over. If it could have held on for another 5-10 seconds and the third Raptor (the engine that didn’t reignite) was able to restart and perform without issue, a three-engine landing burn could have easily made SN9’s demise less violent or even have enabled a soft landing. It’s hard to think about flying on an airplane without wondering about what else the FAA missed on other planes. What safety and regulatory requirements does the agency have concerns about? Twitter Explodes as SpaceX Doesn’t Get License to Launch Starship SN9. Ironically, it’s possible that that attempt at risk reduction resulted in harder landings for both Starship SN8 and SN9, as three-engine landing burns could have potentially slowed them down significantly more before impact. It was unclear what part of the test flight violated the FAA license, and an FAA spokesman declined to specify in a statement to The Verge. After Starship SN9 collapsed on its Boca Chia launch pad, SpaceX repairs the new prototype. Starship SN9 attende sul pad di lancio e forse il prossimo lunedì la vedremo alzarsi in volo e ripetere le manovre già effettuate dal prototipo SN8 andato distrutto nella fase di atterraggio, una fase cruciale che Starship SN9 dovrà superare per portare la SpaceX sulla strada per la Luna e per Marte. That’s relevant because the higher a rocket’s thrust-to-weight ratio during landing, the more aggressive its landings have to be. The accident occurred earlier today as reporters covering SpaceX's Boca Chica facility reported that the SN9 … For its part, the FAA issued the following statement. Februar 2021) Starship SN9 endlich zu seinem Testflug gestartet. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Soon after the ignition test, Musk shared a photograph of SN9’s engines ignited, with an orange glow, pictured below. New rules have been approved to streamline the licensing process, but they haven’t gone into effect yet. Dopo il successo di Starship SN8 - nonostante il botto finale, a conclusione di un test davvero mozzafiato -, … SpaceX's Starship SN9 prototype conducted a 6.2-mile-high (10 kilometers) test flight from the company's South Texas site on Feb. 2, 2021. After completing an otherwise flawless 6.5 minutes launch, ascent, and belly-flop descent, Starship SN9 began a critical ~120-degree flip maneuver, sequentially igniting two Raptor engines and using that thrust to flip from a belly-down attitude to a tail-first landing configuration. The NASASpaceflight team is providing a live update from Boca Chica, Texas on the status of the Starship SN9 test campaign. Each team constructed the vehicles using their own techniques, but they were required to share anything they learned along the way. 2 4. share. Erklärtes Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines vollständig wiederverwendbaren und dadurch sehr kostengünstigen Trägersystems für über 100 … Ironically, more than three years ago, Musk himself revealed in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread that he and his engineers had decided to modify Starship’s (then known as BFS) design by adding a third Raptor to its central cluster of two engines. The result is 2 of the 3 Raptor engines need to be swapped before SN9 is ready for the 12.5 km test flight. SpaceX crashes a second Starship into South Texas [Updated] It's time to see if SN9 can stick the landing in South Texas. Starship SN9 è in forma smagliante: pronta sul pad di lancio per i test e il "volo". (Credit: SpaceX webcast) SpaceX was not able to conduct a planned flight test of its SN9 Starship vehicle at Boca Chica in Texas this week because it didn’t have a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Some darkly pointed the finger at the new Biden Administration without any actual evidence to back up their theory. Posted by. 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