Many corrective actions were recommended after the programmatic environmental assessment was passed by the FAA. The prototypes for the Super Heavy and the Starship are being prepared by the company. On Saturday, July 2nd, the company posted pictures of the Starship and Super Heavy booster with all the Raptors in them that will take them to space
The 33 Raptor 2 engines are arranged in two circles with three clustered in the center of the picture. The Starship has a complement of engines that are arranged around an outer ring and in a cluster in the center. This is the most recent configuration that will be used for the orbital flight test.
The test will see the booster and the rocket separated about 170 seconds into flight from the Spaceport. The booster element will make a soft landing at the sea near the Texas shoreline. After reaching an altitude of 200 km, the SN 24 will perform a soft splashdown off the coast of Hawaii. If successful, the total flight time will be about 90 minutes and will be used to test the launch system.
The deployment of Starlink V2.0 satellites is one of the things that will happen. The creation of Starlink's next- generation satellite constellation is dependent on the existence of the Starship.
“It’s the only thing that can carry the Starlink Two satellites. We’ve already produced the first, and we have on-site, the first Starlink Two and it’s seven meters long (23 ft). [The] Falcon [9] has neither the volume nor the mass-to-orbit capability required for Starlink Two. So even if we shrunk the Starlink Two down, the total upmass of Falcon is not nearly enough to do Starlink Two.”
The Super Heavy and the Starship are crucial to Musk's long-term vision of flying cargo and passengers to Mars. In accordance with this vision, Musk wants to rapidly build Starships at the company's Starports in Texas and Florida and rapidly stack them using the "Mazezilla" launch tower. Each of the flights to Mars will carry 100 passengers or 100 Mega tons of cargo.
The variant of the Starship will be used as the Human Landing System for the Artemis III mission. This will be the first time in a long time that astronauts have landed on the Moon. According to the mission architecture shared by NASA, the Space Launch System (SLS) will send a spaceship with four people to space and then it will be flown back to Earth.
After landing on the lunar surface, the crew of the spaceship will transfer to the HLS and begin their journey back to Earth. NASA's long-term goal of establishing a "sustained program of lunar exploration" is one of the things Musk wants to support with the Starship. The ultimate goal of the Super Heavy launch system is to create a self-sufficient city on Mars.
While a date has not been announced for the orbital flight test, Musk stated in June that he would be ready to go sometime this month. Many people are waiting for his company to come.
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