SpaceX is now ready to climb the hills to space.
The cargo starship's nose cone is set to piers through clouds in the atmosphere, overcome
the Earth's gravity, and start floating in space, heading to the Moon before Mars.
Remember that NASA has already paid SpaceX a whopping sum of $2.9 billion to land their
astronauts on the Moon and build a base there.
Still, SpaceX has all these while face a lot of challenges during the construction of the
Starship, from the raptor engine failure, which was upgraded to raptor 2 to the chopsticks
catcher.
Down to the FAA's unnecessary delays, SpaceX couldn't meet up to launch the Starship SpaceX
as expected.
But they have to do whatever they can to make sure that the Starship lands on the Moon,
at least whether by hook or crook, because Elon Musk and SpaceX have already eaten the
huge $2.9 billion cash that was paid to them and don't think Elon Musk will want to refund
the money if he gives up amid challenges.
So his only option is to keep going and beating challenges until success finds him.
In today's video, we will expose the launch date Elon Musk has revealed to us about the
subsequent launch of the Starship, but this time around, it's going to be the payload
– that is; the Starship that will transport all building materials and equipment to Moon
and Mars.
So this is not one of the information you would afford to miss.
Elon adheres to the school of thought that states that things manifest when spoken into
reality.
Even if he doesn't get exactly what he wants when he wants it, it still has some validity.
And if "success" is defined as simply reaching orbit or deploying a few satellites of the
next generation of Starlink into orbit, then SpaceX's chances are not horrible at all.
Also, if success is defined as catching a Super Heavy rocket and having the Starship
make it through its initial orbital reentry, the chances for this to work are just at SpaceX's
fingertips.
The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has set his expectations for SpaceX's first orbital Starship
launches.
When asked by a Twitter user; Sirine, when SpaceX orbital flight will occur, Elon replied
that SpaceX's first successful orbital Starship launch will "probably occur between 1 and
12 months from now," revealing a surprising amount about the near future of the next-generation
rocket program.
Musk said almost the same thing a year ago, but now the CEO thinks that Starship's first
attempt to launch into orbit could happen as soon as possible.
He also thinks that the first launch attempt could be "successful," although it's unclear
what he means by "successful."
Less optimistically, his tweet from August 2 also suggests that he wouldn't be surprised
if it took SpaceX a year and several tries to get Starship into orbit for the first time.
It may continue to amaze us how some people try to determine Elon's decision, especially
on tweeter, about how and when the Starship will be launched to space or its delivery
dates as if Elon's future timelines are connected in any way with reality.
Well, let's hope Elon and SpaceX know what they are doing.
Elon lives in a whole different world than we do.
Both his sense of time and his schedule are different.
So you may not expect him to think as normal human beings do.
The CEO is very optimistic, but his latest estimate for the Starship schedule is unusually
cautious and uncertain.
At the same time, it does set some reasonable expectations about the likelihood of success.
When the Starship was first shown to the public in September 2016, the fully reusable, next-generation
rocket that later became the stainless steel Starship was expected to start testing in
orbit in 2020.
About two years after that first announcement, CEO Elon Musk made the unexpected decision
to replace the carbon fiber composite airframe of the rocket with stainless steel.
This meant that years of work had to be thrown away.
Years later, it's still hard to say if that decision was the right one, but the development
of Starship has been amazingly intact by such a huge design change at the last minute.
By now, you should know that SpaceX aims to keep trying what has existed before and try
again until it works and the world becomes familiar with how to utilize it.
Hence starship failure is not an option to give up, and the aim of landing on the Moon
with the Starship must happen.
As of the beginning of August, neither Starship 24 nor Super Heavy Booster 7 have been tested
in a way that makes a September launch attempt look good.
Super Heavy Booster 7 is still being repaired after an accidental explosion, and Starship
24's most recent tests, which haven't yet failed, have been slow.
If SpaceX suddenly flips a switch and starts testing Ship 24 with some urgency, the Starship
might be ready for its first attempt to launch into orbit by the end of November.
But could that happen?
No, because being in a hurry means destruction when it comes to technology – meaning everything
must be done correctly to avoid loss in funding cost; no matter the time it takes to get the
Starship upright, SpaceX will still stick to the proper tech sequence to get up and
running.
The Super Heavy, on the other hand, is a much bigger hurdle.
Aside from all 33 of Booster 7's Raptor engines that seem to have been taken out, which will
probably take weeks to reassemble, its status is ambiguous.
If SpaceX decides to move Booster 8, which is almost ready for engine-less proof testing,
up the line, the Super Heavy part of Starship's first orbital launch is likely at least two
or three months away.
To be realistic, if SpaceX isn't going to take a huge risk and try to launch a rocket
that isn't qualified or barely qualified, Starship's first attempt to launch into orbit
probably won't happen until October or November.
The chances of Starship's first launch going well are not good until the booster moves
past a 3-second static fire and runs for maybe 20 seconds on the launch stand.
Before launching Starship to LEO, SpaceX would try to run the booster for its full 135-second
burn time on the launch stand.
But it's unlikely that the Orbital Launch Mount could pass such a test without some
of its subsystems getting severely damaged.
So Elon Musk has got a hard nut to crack.
There shouldn't be any reason we can't have a starship that stays in orbit and goes back
and forth between the Earth and the Moon, refueling tanks on both ends, and a space
station where it could stay, but the technical know-how is a challenge.
Some SpaceX fans have suggested that SpaceX can make a unique starship that can go from
the Earth to the space station on the moon and then back to the Earth.
The same Starship could also save extra fuel and use of the craft going to the Moon by
having a lighter weight spacecraft or one that doesn't have heat shields and better
radiation protection to keep people from getting hurt - by having at least two of the ships
in orbit that can go between the Earth and the space station.
Then, the amount of payload that can be sent to the Moon will be increased, and passengers
will also be able to go to the Moon and back.
This would make it faster for astronauts and cargo to get to and from the Moon and lower
prices.
If everything goes as planned, SpaceX will launch the giant rocket ever made in a few
months.
The Starship rocket is almost 400 feet tall and is meant to take NASA astronauts to the
Moon.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has even bigger plans: he wants to use it to put people on
Mars.
Human space travel on Starship has already been talked about a lot.
But the rocket could also change everything we know about the planets and moons near us.
Ali Bramson, a planetary scientist at Purdue University, says, "Starship would completely
change the way we can explore the solar system."
and "Planetary science is going to blow up."
Scientists are already talking about sending missions to Neptune and its biggest Moon in
the outer solar system, bringing back huge amounts of space rocks from Earth's Moon and
Mars, and even coming up with new ways to protect Earth from incoming asteroids.
The Starship is also unique because it can take off from Earth, fly, refuel with a tanker
ship in Earth's orbit, and then go to Mars.
Once it gets to Mars, it can get more fuel from its fuel station and fly back to Earth.
SpaceX now has a clearer path to Mars than ever before.
It starts with the orbital flight in 2022, then lands people on the Moon, hopefully before
2025, and then heads to Mars.
All we have to do is to hope, support SpaceX and Elon Musk in our little way and watch
things unfold.
What year do you think the Starship will finally land on the Moon?
Also, it looks Elon Musk finally found The Way To Remove FAA From The Equation, so everything
is ready to moon conquering.
Click on the video to know more.