Delicate operation last night at the Boca Chica site in Texas: using the tower’s new equipment for the first time at its launch site, SpaceX assembled Starship
and SuperHeavy. A scene of choice for Elon Musk, who must make an expected presentation of the progress of the project.
A certain sense of staging…
Show on the Starbase
It was a first for the “Mechazilla”! This new carrier arm system is installed on the large support tower at the Starship and SuperHeavy launch site. Last night he carried the “SN20” prototype in an impressive ballet to assemble it with its first stage, which had also been in place for just a few days. Very strong images, for a rocket of all superlatives: 120 meters high, 9 m in diameter, 29 engines (!) on the first stage and 6 on the Starship spacecraft, which displays its heat shield made up of thousands of resistant tiles in the heat.
Now complete, the launcher gives an impression of anticipation, as if the teams were already ready to fire the engines for orbit, the Moon and Mars… Mars, the dream of its project manager, Elon Musk, who wishes before all ” make human life multiplanetary “.
Presentation_finale.ppt
The founder of SpaceX is on site at the “Starbase”, and next night he will welcome a large audience of journalists, but also employees and fans, for a highly anticipated presentation. In front of his rocket, probably with a staging as discreet and modest as that of a Tony Stark… He should detail the development of his Starship program, the progress of his teams, as well as his vision and the agenda for ( at least) the coming months. An exercise in which he had already engaged with enthusiasm in September 2019, and which will be broadcast live tonight at 3 a.m. (Paris).
We’ll talk again tomorrow ?
Source: Twitter
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