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SpaceX reveals Starship Super Heavy “marine recovery” plans, land Onto The Droneship…Is it wrong? #STARSHIPFANS
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6 years ago, SpaceX made history with Falcon 9 booster landing on Drone Ship for the first time. This could only be seen in a sci-fi movie scene before.
But now, everything will be more incredible as SpaceX is even trying to land their giant Super heavy Booster by this method.
How will this happen?
Why is this an amazing solution for SpaceX?
Only in today’s episode of SpaceX Fans, we’ll find out everything about this interesting subject.
In a series of new job postings, SpaceX has hinted at an unexpected desire to develop “marine recovery systems for the Starship program.”
Actually, since SpaceX first began bending metal for its steel Starship development program in late 2018, CEO Elon Musk, executives, and the company itself have long maintained that both Super Heavy boosters and Starship upper stages would perform what are known as return-to-launch-site (RTLS) landings. It’s no longer clear if those long-stated plans are set in stone.
Oddly, despite repeatedly revealing plans to develop “marine recovery” assets for Starship, SpaceX’s recent “marine engineer” and “naval architect” job postings never specifically mentioned the company’s well-established plans to convert retired oil rigs into vast floating Starship launch sites.
Weighing several thousand tons and absolutely dwarfing the football-field-sized drone ships SpaceX recovers Falcon boosters with, it goes without saying that towing an entire oil rig hundreds of miles to and from the port is not an efficient or economical solution for rocket recovery.
It would also make very little sense for SpaceX to hire a dedicated naval architect without once mentioning that they’d be working on something as all-encompassing as the world’s largest floating launch pad.
That leaves three obvious explanations for the mentions.
First, it might be possible that SpaceX is merely preparing for the potential recovery of debris or intact, floating ships or boosters after intentionally expending them on early orbital Starship test flights.
Second, SpaceX might have plans to strip an oil rig or two – without fully converting them into launch pads – and then use those rigs as landing platforms designed to remain at sea indefinitely. Those platforms might then transfer landed ships or boosters to smaller support ships tasked with returning them to dry land.
Third and arguably most likely, SpaceX might be exploring the possible benefits of landing Super Heavy boosters at sea.
SpaceX reveals Starship Super Heavy “marine recovery” plans, land Onto The Droneship…Is it wrong?
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