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Mar 13, 2022

SpaceX’s first 33-engine Super Heavy booster reaches full height

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Approximately 11 weeks after the process began, SpaceX has finished stacking its newest Super Heavy booster prototype – the first of its kind intended to host 33 new Raptor V2 engines.

Designed to launch Starship’s massive, namesake upper stage part of the way to orbit, Super Heavy is in many ways simpler than Starship but just as complex and unprecedented in others. Ignoring SpaceX’s unusual plans to have boosters land on huge mechanical arms installed on a skyscraper-sized tower, Super Heavy is ‘merely’ a large vertical-launch, vertical-landing liquid rocket booster – the likes of which SpaceX already has extensive experience with through Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. What mainly sets Super Heavy apart is its sheer scale.

Measuring around 69 meters (~225 ft) from tip to tail, Super Heavy – just one of two Starship stages – is almost as tall as an entire two-stage Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket. At nine meters (~30 ft) wide, a single Super Heavy booster – effectively a giant steel tube – should be able to store at least six or seven times as much propellant as Falcon 9 and about two to three times as much as Falcon Heavy. Engine count and peak thrust are similarly staggering.

Mar 13, 2022

World’s Largest Hydrogen Plant Says It’s Going to Power SpaceX Launches

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, solar power, space travel, sustainability

US startup company Green Hydrogen International announced plans for a a 60GW renewable H2 project that will be powered by wind and solar. It’ll also produce clean rocket fuel for SpaceX, which is helmed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a report published yesterday in Recharge.

“We see Hydrogen City becoming one of the largest H2 production centers in the world, supplying many different customers with 100% clean H2 fuel,” founder Brian Maxwell told the energy industry pub.

The image below from GHI’s website shows the process of converting renewable energy from wind and solar farms into ammonia and rocket fuel. The key to scaling up production, the company says, is the large salt storage capability found in underground salt domes.

Mar 12, 2022

Teleportation Is Real, and It is Going To Change The World!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, space travel

What if you could travel to the country of your choice in just 1 click? If that was possible, your train of thought would be, Let’s go to Switzerland, no Iceland…you know what, let’s go everywhere. Teleportation is a common part of science fiction characters but is it achievable?

The pandemic has been hard on us and forced us to step out only when it is absolutely necessary. But you know what, Teleportation can be the perfect thing for you. And Earth is not the limit, you can put on a suit and some oxygen cylinder and you can just teleport to the moon…Elon Musk, you there?😃

But as far as we know, everyone told us while watching science fiction, this is not possible but you know what they are not entirely correct.

Mar 12, 2022

How SpaceX could save the ISS if Russia bails

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Musk’s Dragons stand ready to help.


Russian rockets are essential for keeping the station in place — but a modified Crew Dragon could do the trick.

Mar 11, 2022

A new lunar rover design from California’s Death Valley aims for the Moon

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Mar 11, 2022

Is it the end of the Voyager spacecraft?

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Mar 11, 2022

Groundbreaking new robots could solve the space junk problem

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Machines that grip, grapple, and maneuver will soon have their go at maintaining the fleet of small spacecraft that encircle Earth.

Mar 11, 2022

A company is planning to give you orbital deliveries from outer space

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

The technology could be used to quickly deploy artificial organs to hospitals. A U.S.-based startup co-founded by an ex-SpaceX intern wants to make payloads rain down from Earth’s orbit.

Mar 11, 2022

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Mar 11, 2022

SLS vs. Starship: How NASA’s rocket could fuel ambitious space missions

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

NASA wants to launch its Space Launch System on a trip to the Moon. Here’s how the agency’s giant rocket compares with SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, which Elon Musk wants to use to go to Mars and beyond.