{"id":3333,"date":"2021-05-22T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2021-05-22T07:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T07:13:03","slug":"spacex-is-building-starships-orbital-launch-tower-ahead-of-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is Building Starship&#8217;s Orbital Launch Tower Ahead Of Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesmanian.com\/blogs\/tesmanian-blog\/starship-tower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PicsArt_05-21-04.31.13_1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SpaceX is building the first prototype of the giant Super Heavy rocket booster that will propel Starship to orbit at Starbase, located in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The rocket will be the world\u2019s most powerful rocket, equipped with 28 methane-fueled Raptor engines that will generate over 16 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff \u2013that\u2019s over twice the thrust of the Saturn V rocket that launched NASA\u2019s Apollo missions to the lunar surface. SpaceX plans to \u2018catch\u2019 the Super Heavy rocket after it launches Starship to orbit. Catching the 230-foot-tall (70-meter) booster as it descends from space will enable fast reusability. \u201cStarship booster, largest flying object ever designed, will be caught out of sky by launch tower. Big step forward, as reflight can be done in under an hour,\u201d SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on April 7. Using the launch tower to catch the rocket \u201csaves mass and cost of legs\u2026 enables immediate repositioning of booster on to launch mount [\u2026],\u201d he stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quelle: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesmanian.com\/blogs\/tesmanian-blog\/starship-tower\">SpaceX Is Building Starship&#8217;s Orbital Launch Tower Ahead Of Potential<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is building the first prototype of the giant Super Heavy rocket booster that will propel Starship to orbit at Starbase, located in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The rocket will be the world\u2019s most powerful rocket, equipped with 28 methane-fueled Raptor engines that will generate over 16 million pounds of thrust upon liftoff \u2013that\u2019s over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elektromobilitaet","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtjakob.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}