Try to visualize how a monster behaves; if you've seen one of those horror movies, you'll
realize that a monster has a dangerous and aggressive appearance, which causes anxiety
and fear.
A monster may also possess supernatural abilities, generally capable of wreaking havoc.
This may be a reference to the SpaceX Super Heavy Booster.
Though the super heavy has only physical powers.
What precisely makes it perform like a monster?
Stick around as we unveil the realistic physical power and performance of spacex newest super
heavy rocket.
Elon Musk's goal is to rule space with his inventions, and while the world will not laugh
at him if he fails, he has made the world realize that nothing is impossible, and whatever
is desired and worked for, can be achieved in reality.
Elon wants to launch a seral completely stacked spacecraft into space for space orbital missions.
He intends to create the starship dependable enough to convey astronauts' equipment to
space, as well as a vessel capable of carrying out any space shuttle or tours as fast as
possible.
The super heavy, which is an absolute beast of a machine, has been designed to be the
foundation of success of all spacex Mars missions; without it, spacex will not be able to pierce
through the earth's thick atmosphere, and go to a lower earth's orbit, let alone travel
to Mars.
Wait a minute, let’s briefly remember when rocket launches were simply a pipe dream.
This year, 2022, celebrates 96 years since Dr. Robert H. launched the first liquid fuel
rocket around March 16th, 1926.
His initial three-meter-tall rocket used gasoline and liquid oxygen to achieve a height of 12
meters.
It has a single engine and weighs roughly 4.5kg.
This was the first effort of rocket technology to reach a height of 12 meters above the ground.
That's pretty laughable, considering it was intended to be a rocket, not a commercial
airplane that will just fly into the sky and return.
However, at that time, this rocket made us believe that; one day, a machine might perhaps
take up from the Earth's surface and journey into space.
Elon Musk, one of the world's most ambitious investors, stepped into the scene to revolutionize
rocket engineering.
We were all eager to fold our hands and watch him work on the Falcon 9 rocket, which appeared
to be something we are used to – and before we could say jack, Elon Musk had added something
we were not used to.
Our gaze couldn't take a break from what had been fabricated into reality.
What I'm referring I am referring to here, is SpaceX super heavy booster and its raptor
engines.
And, guess what, the super heavy in particular does not seem like what we always see, like
the type of rocket NASA and Boeing always use to send astronauts to the ISS; standing
at 230 feet tall and powered by 29 raptor engines, it appears to be something unusual,
like a monster that our eyes cannot stop gazing at.
Elon Musk intends to work on the starship and make it the king of space.
SpaceX has completed stacking its newest Super Heavy rocket prototype — the first of its
kind designed to house 33 new Raptor V2 engines – around 11 weeks after the process began.
Super Heavy, which is designed to propel the gigantic second stage starship know as the
upper stage, all the way to orbit, has a complex engineering analytic development, but kind
of unique.
Giving a thought about SpaceX's odd plans to land rockets on massive mechanical arms
built on a skyscraper-sized tower, Super Heavy is 'merely' a gigantic vertical-launch, and
vertical-landing liquid rocket booster — the likes of which SpaceX already has vast experience
with via Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
The sheer size of Super Heavy is what sets it uniqueness.
Super Heavy, which is only one of two Starship stages – is nearly as tall as a two-stage
Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket, measuring roughly 69 meters or 225 feet from tip to
tail.
A single Super Heavy rocket – literally a big steel tube , at nine meters diameter
should be able to carry at least six or seven times as much propellant as Falcon 9 and two
to three times as much as Falcon Heavy.
The number of engines and max thrust are both mind-blowing.
It’s now time I introduce the newest spacex super heavy booster, known as the Booster
or you can call it B7
Booster 7 or B7, SpaceX's newest Super Heavy prototype, improves those engine-related capabilities
even more.
Instead of the 29 Raptor V1 engines seen on Super Heavy B4, Booster 7 can accommodate
up to 33 Raptor V2 engines.
While the V2 design streamlines the Raptor's design to make it easier to construct, install,
and operate, it also dramatically increases maximum thrust from roughly 185 tons to at
least 230 tons.
In theory, Booster 7 may deliver at least 40% greater thrust than Booster 4 if Super
Heavy B7 is built with all 33 Raptor V2 engines, capable of operating at the specified thrust
level.
B4, on the other hand, has yet to try a single static fire.
After more than a half-year at the orbital launch site, SpaceX has yet to conduct a single
full wet dress rehearsal; a launch simulation just to shy of ignition, or static fire test
on Booster 4.
This has led many to believe that the prototype is doomed.
With Booster 7 maybe only a week or two away from test-readiness, SpaceX now has a credible
alternative capable of both delivering the flame and kicking off the certification of
the first prototype planned to employ Raptor V2 engines.
Booster 7 also has thinner raceways, which is an external conduits that protect circuitry
and smaller plumbing; a revised configuration of the pressure containers, 'hydraulic power
units,' and umbilical panel situated aft; and major tweaks to the aerocovers that fit
over that aft hardware.
Aside from the Raptor engines, the two most important changes made to Super Heavy Booster
7 are undoubtedly a pair of strake-like aerocovers and the installation of massive interior 'header'
tanks used to store landing propellant.
A set of new sharp-edged aero-covers are now planned to slip over the top of two new pairs
of five composited-overwrapped pressure vessels ( abbreviated as COPVs), that run about a
third of the way up the tanks of Booster 7.
It's probable that they'll work similarly to strakes, which are fixed wing-like structures
meant to increase aerodynamic stability.
Super Heavy B4, on the other hand, has four sets of two COPVs, positioned evenly around
the edge of its engine section.
Finally, SpaceX has modified Super Heavy Booster 7 with a full set of internal header tanks,
implying that it will now be able to store all required landing propellant in separate
tanks.
This reduces the quantity of pressurization gas required, and makes it considerably easier
to guarantee that the Super Heavy's Raptor engines get an unbroken supply of fuel throughout
complicated in-space and in-atmosphere maneuvers.
Following SpaceX's decision to convert Super Heavy's tank vents into maneuvering thrusters,
header tanks should reduce the likelihood of liquid propellant being mistakenly leaked
while the rocket is in microgravity or free fall.
Hopefully, Super Heavy B7 will be completely built and ready for proof testing.
It's extremely likely that SpaceX will need several more months to refine Raptor V2's
design, construct and validate at least 33 of the engines, but in the meantime, Booster
7 may begin cryogenic proof and wet dress rehearsal testing as early as late March or
early April.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has disclosed one of several modest design changes planned
in the interim, not long after confirming plans to add three additional Raptor engines
to Starship and expand the upper stage's fuel tanks.
Musk revealed on January 3rd that SpaceX is completely moving one of the two backup 'header'
tanks that Starships utilize to store landing propellant.
A diagram scribbled on the side of future Starship rings reveals more plans to modify
the majority of the subsections that SpaceX stacks to make a Starship, in addition to
an enhanced nosecone design.
Finally, another design modification has been discovered on hardware that will be used in
the first full-thrust Super Heavy rocket.
Musk's confirmation about the modification of the methane header tank comes just a few
days after a sketch on the side of a Starship piece verified many other minor design alterations.
SpaceX engineers and technicians have frequently utilized the hardware itself as a sort of
whiteboard to sketch out ideas, and physically comment ongoing work, thus 'hieroglyphics'
on starbases are not unusual.
This specific graphic was quite comprehensive and instructive, successfully demonstrating
how the design of the Starship will alter beginning with Ship 24.
The modifications are straightforward:
SpaceX will simply add an additional ring to numerous Starship ‘sections.'
For modern spacecraft, six separate parts are stacked to form the cylindrical tankage
and hull of the Starship.
The present nosecone design requires five more stacked parts to be completed.
It takes around seven stack operations to fully construct the fundamental framework
of a Starship, counting the nose as one.
With the design improvements drawn out on a Starship S24 ring and an updated nosecone
debuting on the same ship, fully erecting a nosecone will now take two or three stacks
(down from five), and fully completing a Starship would take six stacks.
While not a substantial redesign, the improvements will greatly simplify, and possibly speed
up starship assembly, with further favorable consequences for plumbing, wiring, and heat
shield installation.
Do you know of any new features or upgrades to the SpaceX Super Heavy Booster 7 that have
recently been implemented?
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