Après la fusée étatique chinoise Longue Marche 10B qui s'est posée sur sa barge il y a 1 mois, voici que la fusée chinoise Zhuque-3 au méthane de l'entreprise Landspace réussit à son tour à se poser, sur la terre ferme.
La Chine avance à marche forcée.
After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase
Always a crazy day seeing rockets explode lol
Rockets are very hard but, LM-7A will return soon!
I don’t get why people are doomering over this, shit happens with rockets it’s just how this industry goes.
It looks so cool.
I wonder if we'll see more Starship transport barges? We currently have 2 but if they continue to build launch sites at this pace they'll probably need additional capacity.
SpaceX is taking Starship offshore.
The company is backing offshore platforms for Starship launches and catches potentially enabling higher launch cadence, safer debris zones, and more flexible trajectories.
Starship operations could be getting a whole lot bigger.
Prufrock builds tunnel rings fully autonomously.
Six concrete segments (~3,750 lb each), are lifted, translated and placed into final position.
That's the weight of a Tesla Model 3, placed with millimeter precision in < 1 minute, monitored remotely from the Global OCC in Texas.
With how effective SpaceX's method of fairing recovery has turned out to be I'm really starting to question how worth it the extra dry mass that comes with Neutron’s non detachable fairings is.
Starship tower catch is coming.
SpaceX is targeting the first catch of the upper stage with the tower arms — the same “chopsticks” that already catch the Super Heavy booster.
Pending final data review and regulatory approval, it’s on the table for the next flight.
No one has ever caught an orbital-class upper stage out of the sky.
This is the next real leap.
The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port
☀️🛰️ Tony Bruno a dévoilé des images du déploiement au sol des immenses panneaux solaires ROSA de Blue Ring.
Ce vaisseau à propulsion hybride chimique et électrique embarque 2 ailes fournies par Redwire (longueur ~20m, pour une envergure totale de 44m !).
SpaceX a son propre fournil, mais ce n'est pas pour faire cuire des baguettes !
Ici, les tuiles thermiques sont fabriquées et cuites en 40h.
Un Starship en comporte 18000.