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Mechazilla
SpaceX Starbase—previously, SpaceX South Texas Launch Site and SpaceX private launch site—is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main testing and production location for Starship launch vehicles, as well as the headquarters of the American space technology company SpaceX. Located in Starbase, Texas, United States, and adjacent to South Padre Island, Texas, Starbase has been under near-continuous development since the late 2010s, and comprises a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility, and a test site along Texas State Highway 4. When initially conceptualized in the early 2010s, its stated purpose was "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles". In early 2018, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starship Flight Test 5
Starship flight test 5 was the fifth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on October 13, 2024. The test article (aerospace), prototype vehicles flown were the Starship Starship Ship 30, Ship 30 upper-stage and Super Heavy Super Heavy Booster 12, Booster 12. After launching and delivering the SpaceX Starship (spacecraft), Starship upper stage into a Sub-orbital spaceflight, suborbital trajectory heading toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean, the SpaceX Super Heavy, Super Heavy booster turned around and fired its SpaceX Raptor, Raptor engines to Return to launch site, return to the launch site. As the booster approached the launch pad it slowed to a near Hover (behaviour), hover and did a horizontal slide maneuver to line itself up with two massive "chopstick" arms on the Service structure, launch tower, dubbed "Mechazilla." The arms then closed around the booster before the engines shut down. The rocket launched on the morning of 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
