Why Did SpaceX's Starship Moon Rocket Blow Up Over Texas?

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his is the story of starships first interngrated flight test. Now I dont usually cover rockets on this channel, ive covered the space shuttle a couple of times and you guys seemed to love it so heres a video about space’x starship. But before we can talk about the worlds largest rocket blowing up 24 miles up in the skies iver texas then we need to talk about what starship is. Back in the day elon musk wanted to send a greenhouse to mars, why you ask? Because elons gonna elon. But he quickly realized that rocket launches were too expensive so he asked the russians if he could buy an ICBM off of them to get this mars plan of his off of the ground, pun intended. The russians obviously laughed him out of the room, i mean wouldnt you. But before we go further let me thank our sponsor war thunder, without their support this would not be possible. Yove heard me talk about warthunder, its the most comprehensive vehicle combat game ever made. You can play more than 2000 planes ships and tanks in amazing pvp battles. With everything mottled right down to the last rivet for amazing immersion. And the best thing is you can play on PC, Xbox X&S, the PS 5 and other last gen consoles. Since the last time i talked about war thunder heres some other things I like about the game. Ive fallen in love with the customisation that the game offers to it allows you to place historical markings for that added authenticity and the action packed PVP matches are something you must experience. So check them out at the link in the description But this made him create spacex in 2002. Fast forward a bit spacex gets to orbit with the falcon one then they build the falcon 9 with NASA funding and then they slowly start landing the boosters from 2015 onwards. They also develop the falcon heavy at around this time. To lob some truly massive payloads into space. But elon wants to get to mars and for that hed need a rocket thats absolutely massive, the likes of which the world has never seen, something that would make the falcon heavy, which hadnt flown at the time look like a childs toy. And so the ITS program was revealed as a concept in 2016. The ITS or the interplanetary transport system called for an absolutely gargantuan rocket that was fully reusable. This is absolutely nuts. You see up to this point spacex had only gotten to partial reusability and a rocket that allowed for reuse of the second and first stage was the holy grail of rocketry. The ITS then went through a couple of iterations before they landed on the design that they are building right now. An upper stage that has 4 flaps two in the font and two in the back that launches atop the superheavy booster and then re enters the atmosphere and then uses the flaps to control itself kind of like a sky diver. The falling upper stage would then be caught by a tower with two long arms, that the community has dubbed the chop sticks, the tower itself is called mechazilla. The booster is supposed to do what the falcon 9 booster does. Go up flip itself around perform a boostback burn and come in for a landing, instead of the booster landing on its own legs, mechazilla is supposed to catch the booster as well. Guys im not making this up these are the official plans of spacex. So with the design “finalized”, they started building the thing out in boca chica texas. Starship uses a unique engine, the raptor. Raptor is the worlds first full-flow staged-combustion methalox engine that is a lotta words but what it means is that the unlike most engines which uses either hydrogen or kerosene. The raptor uses methane, which not a whole lot of rocket engines use and it was only recently that a methane powered rocket reached orbit. All of this meant that it took a lot of blowing engines up to make sure that spacex’s raptor engine was reliable enough to put on a rocket booster. Now speaking of that booster, the super heavy booster has at the time of recording 33 raptor engines. Thats an absolutely mind boggling number of engines which handily beats the soviet N1 which had 30 engines and these are powerful engines, recently they fired all the engines of superheavy for a static fire before flight test two and at 50% thrust this thing is more powerful than the saturn 5 that took us to the moon and back. The starship vehicle has an additional 6 raptor engines. If you arent in awe of this machine just yet just know that everything that youre looking at right now was built in a field in texas under a tent. The starship is a truly incredible machine. With all of that prefa

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