{"id":21578,"date":"2024-10-16T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-is-now-moving-into-a-new-era-of-starship-development\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:02:00","slug":"spacex-is-now-moving-into-a-new-era-of-starship-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-is-now-moving-into-a-new-era-of-starship-development\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX is now moving into a new era of Starship development"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"41635\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2024\/10\/15\/spacex-is-now-moving-into-a-new-era-of-starship-development\/gz45r9magaapxbl\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Starship Flight 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/10\/GZ45r9MagAAPXbL.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: SpaceX\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, SpaceX successfully launched and caught its Starship booster down in Starbase, Texas. A feat that many didn\u2019t think would come true when watching the renders. However, SpaceX once again defied the odds and made fiction a reality and can now move on with its much more ambitious Starship plans.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41633\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceX launched its Flight 5 Starship mission Sunday morning at 7:25 A.M. CDT on a similar suborbital trajectory from previous missions. The big change this time around came in the recovery of the vehicle\u2019s booster and Starship\u2019s heat shield for reentry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what is a night-and-day difference from what SpaceX did on Flight 1 of Starship, Flight 5\u2019s vehicle lifted off from its Boca Chica Beach launch site, completed a successful hot staging, and began flying its booster back to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then take what you\u2019ll see during a Falcon 9 RTLS landing but scale the size up by ~100 and the craziness by 1,000 as the Super Heavy booster gracefully slid into place between the launch pad\u2019s two arms called \u201cchopsticks,\u201d and came to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-41633',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The booster, known as Booster 12, is now back on the orbital launch mount and is likely to be taken back to the production facility for checkouts. The goal for SpaceX\u2019s new recovery system versus using landing legs like those on the Falcon 9 is rapid reusability, being able to turn the booster around in hours or days, not weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting the rocket launched into space and the booster returning were major milestones for Starship\u2019s development. The FAA\u2019s last-second license for the launch authorized at least one more flight, Flight 6, if it uses the same trajectory. The administration has stated that changes for Flight 6\u2019s launch have already been approved, but there is no word on what that might be. So, another launch by the end of the year or early 2026 could be possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Starship upper stage, the vehicle successfully flew its flight plan into space, reentered, and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. The ship survived reentry much better this time around, thanks to SpaceX\u2019s changes to the heat shield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This test went as well as SpaceX could have hoped, and many of us still can\u2019t believe the catch worked the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now SpaceX will need to focus on operating the Starship upper stage in space, refueling it, landing it back on Earth and the Moon, and learning how to launch dozens of times a day. Nothing a few billion more dollars can\u2019t figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}