What SpaceX Did With Starship Booster Will Blow Your Mind!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- One of the most revolutionary ideas SpaceX has introduced to the space industry is catching rockets mid-air. This is one of the hardest achievements in the history of spaceflight, and SpaceX has managed to do it in less than a decade of Starship development. However, this method is still in the testing phase, and there are problems that need to be solved before it becomes fully operational. It could take dozens of more tests to refine the process completely. But what if there is a better way to recover both the booster and the upper stage? SpaceX has now come up with a simpler and more reliable method for reusing Starship and Super Heavy. In today’s video, we’ll explore this new approach. Before we dive deeper, make sure to subscribe to our channel for future updates on Starship and SpaceX’s groundbreaking achievements.
Mechazilla works by using giant mechanical arms attached to the launch tower. These arms are designed to precisely catch the returning booster as it descends from space. The advantage of this approach is that it eliminates the need for traditional landing legs, making the booster lighter and allowing for more fuel or payload capacity. Instead of landing on a drone ship or a landing pad, the booster comes down vertically and is guided into the arms of Mechazilla, which then locks it in place. Once secured, the booster can be quickly reattached to another Starship upper stage and prepared for the next launch.
While this system has many benefits, it also presents several challenges. First, the booster is traveling at extremely high speeds when it re-enters the atmosphere. It must precisely align itself with Mechazilla’s arms at just the right moment, or the catch will fail. This requires incredibly precise control and coordination between the rocket’s navigation system and the tower’s catching mechanism. Even the smallest miscalculation in timing, wind conditions, or alignment could cause the booster to miss the arms and crash.
They need a flame deflector with an open center to the sea on the drone ship. The olm would be split into four sections that close around and clamp holding the rocket base. Rocket guide rods lateral raise up off the deck early and center the ship over the olm mount.
That's amazing! Your knowledge is very useful, and I really enjoy videos like this.
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Octograber and clamps that can configure to catch and stablize like octopus arms. Land in shallow seawater.then release bellows up down.add maybe clamps.
People who have followed SpaceX progress with Starship have suggested this from the very beginning. starship does not use all of its engines for the landing phase so a drone ships does not have to be designed to handle 16 million pounds of thrust. Also absent the use of a drone ship for landing Starship could land anywhere the ground was properly prepared maybe even on one end of commercial runways if necessary. Starship has already demonstrated it’s a ability to land upright on land.
I don't think this makes any sense. Elon's core mantra is about Rapidly Reusable Rockets. He wants to be able land, refuel, and relaunch in as short a time as possible, certainly under a day, and maybe even more than once a day. As soon as you land on the barge, it blows the timeframes out completely. This is why so much work has been done (and still being done) on Mechazilla. Which really means this video is quite off the mark. Nothing here is blowing anybodies mind.
Retrofit the Love Boat.
Unlimited sea water right there. Just let it flow over the side, like an infinity pool.
Aren’t they going to land on the moon and Mars?
Add a gyroscope balance system below deck.
If the SHB is only running three raptor engines at closest approach to the landing pad, or the mechazilla for that matter. So, at full power the three Raptor engines produce 1.5 million pounds of thrust compared to 9 Merlin engine's 1.7 million pounds of thrust. I think you're providing viewers with a lot of red herring information. What possible impact would the total mass of a fully staged and fuelled Starship system have to do with landing a near empty Super Heavy booster? Your channel is becoming totally irrelevant as it seems you have trouble with being straight up with people.
What a waste of technology! That is his ego going crazy! Take that brain power and use it to bring manned spacecraft back to earth at something less than 17,000 mile per hour. The purpose of a booster is to get the spacecraft through the thickest and most vibrant part of the atmosphere, not to look sexy as it re lands. What a waste.
If u stop talking garbage it would be good
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