Elon musk's SpaceX has made a big advancement by finishing the first ever full flight-like dress
rehearsal for its deep space rocket Starship which is probably capable of carrying astronauts to Mars
the company stated on Tuesday and so what are the next steps before the first orbital launch
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Bell icon so you don't miss any of our amazing videos today at Starbase Starship finished its
first full wet dress rehearsal that replicated a flight the combined ship and booster was
completely loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant for the first time in this operation
the SpaceX rocket of the future has advanced significantly towards its initial attempt at
an orbital launch with the conclusion of that test the largest rocket ever built is called
Starship and it is around 120 meters tall and 9 meters broad it is intended to launch more than
220 thousand pounds to low earth orbit in a fully reusable form Starship will be significantly more
powerful than any rocket in history when it lifts off with its 33 Raptor engines capable
of producing up to 7 590 tons of thrust and after SpaceX fully loaded Starship with propellant on
Monday January 23. it probably became the heaviest rocket ever to the surprise of most Spectators
SpaceX successfully passed the challenging test necessary for that achievement it just
hasn't been spacex's preferred strategy while constructing Starship so the apparent success
is unexpected the Starship program has been handled primarily to prioritize speed and prepare
for disasters since SpaceX started building star hopper in an empty Texas field in 2018
in spite of the fact that failures were a given the corporation nearly always opted to create
test and learn from minimum viable product prototypes as soon as possible SpaceX always
had a backup prototype ready to continue the work because it anticipated failures learned from them
and prepared for them Starship prototypes rarely succeeded in ground or flight tests on the first
attempt since SpaceX was also learning how to test and operate those Vehicles frequently in a
devastating manner the result of the failure as an option strategy was a series of Seven sub-orbital
Starship tests which took place between August 2020 and may 2021 and included two brief hops
of identical prototypes as well as five attempts to launch and land five more advanced prototypes
after four failed attempts a full-scale Starship finally launched to a height of 12.5 kilometers on
its fifth attempt shut off its engines descended to Earth reignited them flipped about and landed
safely it appears that the campaign served as the ultimate validation of spacex's development
approach however SpaceX made the decision to fundamentally alter the risk management and
systems engineering strategies for the Starship program in the second half of 2022 as a result
over the past few months testing of Starships has grown extremely cautious there is a slight
possibility that SpaceX just happened to get lucky but starship's first completely built wet dress
rehearsal test seems to show that being cautious has paid off since mid-2022 the Rockets two stages
shipped 24 and booster 7 have performed dozens of independent verification tests and static
fires additionally while stacked they passed a number of tests that were far more restrictive
on January 23 SpaceX finally fired the first shot after carefully characterizing each prototype as
accurately as it was able to after spending hours preparing the massive tank farm at the star base
Texas orbital launch site SpaceX unlocked the floodgates and loaded ship 24 and booster 7 with
up to 4 860 tons of cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellant in just under 90 minutes
Starship was the largest rocket ever built when it was fully loaded with a combined weight of
more than 5 000 tons the next heaviest Rockets ever constructed the Saturn 5 and N1 each weighed
about 2 800 tons when fully loaded about four hours after fueling the rocket SpaceX was also
able to drain Starship and return its propellant to the ground storage tanks beneath the launch pad
parts of the test visible from independent webcasts like NASA space flights seem to confirm
as much the company later acknowledged that the test was a full flight-like wet dress rehearsal
as suspected and noted that data gathered from it would help verify a full launch countdown
sequence as well as the performance of Starship and the orbital pad for flightlink operations the
orbital launch mounts fire extinguisher system for instance was turned on by SpaceX just after
Starship was completely loaded likely simulating the minutes before the rocket would otherwise
start its engines and lift off SpaceX didn't appear to enter any form of hold or abort at any
stage during the wet dress rehearsal showing that the rocket systems were sufficiently integrated
to successfully finish it on the first attempt throughout the lengthy test there was only one
instance of a tad alarming behavior that occurred immediately after Starship was topped off in an
effort to relieve pressure booster 7 opened one of its methane tank gas vents but what
looked to be liquid methane instead appeared to be released creating a flammable Cloud that was
hundreds of feet long most likely the super heavy was somewhat overfilled and the liquid vent was a
deliberate correction of that mistake thankfully the methane Cloud did not find an ignition source
and Starship continued to complete the test as planned for starship's first attempt at orbital
launch SpaceX still needs to do a lot of work on ship 24 and booster 7. the final static Burns
for booster 7 must be completed before it can potentially surpass all previous records for power
booster 7 will only be reassembled if it passes its tests therefore SpaceX will likely remove
ship 24 while testing super heavy to limit risk additionally SpaceX must work with the Federal
Aviation Administration to complete the starship's first orbital launch license fix the pad following
static fire testing and prepare it for use however starship's first time success in a wet dress
rehearsal has proven that the Rockets orbital launch debut is for the first time genuinely
imminent following a number of false positives on the other hand NASA is also hoping to rely on
Starship for its Artemis program and let's take a closer look on what is exactly the Artemis program
recall NASA chose the SpaceX plan above competing proposals from Blue origin and Dynamics in April
and gave SpaceX a 2.89 billion dollar contract to create an hls for Artemis cost was a key
consideration for NASA as stated in a source selection document the SpaceX offer was by far
the lowest of the three despite the fact that the space agency would have preferred to work with two
businesses but could only afford one it has always been in our nature as humans to want to know as
much as we can about the worlds around us it's not always simple to do this but it's in our nature
the first woman and the first person of color will touch down on the moon's surface with Artemis
thanks to NASA and its collaborators after two test flights Artemis 3 which is scheduled for 2025
will be the first time that humans have visited the lunar surface in more than 50 years the first
people to visit the area around the lunar South Pole will be sent by NASA making history the crews
ride to and from Earth as well as into and out of lunar orbit will be provided by NASA's Orion
spacecraft only Orion has the ability to bring Crews back to Earth at the speeds necessary for
re-entering the Moon Orion specifically developed heat shield was recently put to the test in these
challenging re-entry conditions on the successful Artemis 1 Mission the space launch system the only
rocket powerful enough to deliver Orion its crew and their supplies to the Moon in a single launch
will take off from launch pad 39b at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with four astronauts
on board the most Diversified astronaut core in history with each member possessing a special
set of talents and having undergone extensive training will be used to choose the crew in order
to complete system inspections and solar panel changes on Orion the crew will first launch into
Earth orbit Orion will then undertake a trans lunar injection maneuver setting its route to
the Moon with the assistance of a strong push from sls's interim cryogenic propulsion stage
in order to intercept the moon's gravitational field the crew will move toward it for several
days while doing corrective engine Burns Orion will execute a series of two engine Burns at the
appropriate time and place to put the spacecraft in a lunar near rectilinear Halo orbit in order
to accomplish long-term Artemis objectives NASA chose nrho from hundreds of feasible orbits with
the help of nrho you will be able to access places all over the moon and maintain nearly continual
contact with Earth this orbit will consume fuel as efficiently as possible because it
is gravitationally balanced between Earth and the Moon assembling the Gateway lunar space station in
nrho will be done by NASA and its collaborators on upcoming missions which will act as a center
for Artemis missions in order to get the Artemis three humans from Orion in lunar orbit to the
moon's surface and back NASA has chosen SpaceX to supply the human Landing system to maximize the
effectiveness of their Lander SpaceX intends to employ a novel operational Paradigm at least one
unmanned demonstration mission that lands Starship on the lunar surface will be flown by SpaceX
following a series of testing Starship won't be ready for its Maiden Artemis flight until it has
complied with all of NASA's guidelines and strict standards for the safety of the crew a storage
Depot will be sent by SpaceX to Earth orbit prior to the crew flight propeller will be delivered to
the storage Depot by a fleet of reusable tankers in order to power the human Landing system the
unmanned Starship human Landing system will next be sent into Earth orbit rendezvous with
the storage facility and fill its tanks after that it will burn a trans lunar injection engine for
around six days to get to nrho where the Artemis 3 crew will be waiting in order to get ready for
the first 21st century lunar surface Expedition Orion will dock with the Starship human Landing
system after both spacecraft have reached nrho two astronauts will join Starship and two will
stay in Orion after the crew and their supplies are prepared in order to stay in nrho for about
one orbit of the moon which lasts for about 6.5 days Orion will undock and move away from
the Starship as Orion completes its orbit the two members of the surface crew will have finish their
duties there in time to launch back up to meet the spacecraft because this will correspond to the
length of the surface mission in preparation for the Artemis phase of human lunar exploration NASA
has its sights set on Regions near the South Pole the Region's distinct features hold potential for
groundbreaking deep space scientific discoveries despite its extreme opposing environments which
make it difficult for earthlings to land live in and operate there for the Artemis 3 surface
suits and spacewalk systems NASA has chosen Axiom space compared to earlier lunar trips these suits
will allow the astronauts to move more freely and explore a wider area and that ends today's episode
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