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SpaceX Starship Update || SpaceX Beginning Final Assembly of Starship Ahead of Roll to The Pad
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been sharing a number of updates about SpaceX progress on Starship this week, indicating that the first upgraded Starship prototype’s flight debut is imminent. Along with footage of the assembly process of the current “SN1” prototype of Starship, he explained on Twitter some of the other considerations and strategies the company is working with as it works on the new spacecraft and tries to fly it to space this year.
Workers at the SpaceX factory have been working “around the clock” for a month to build the first full-scale flightworthy Starship prototype, a process that only began after two ‘test tanks’ were fabricated, assembled, and pressurized until they burst on January 10th and 28th. Built with improved tools and methods, those test results allowed SpaceX to empirically confirm that its current infrastructure and techniques are ready to manufacture orbital-class Starships right now.
Musk said that SpaceX is iterating at a much faster pace with Starship than it has recently with Falcon, as Falcon’s design more or less stabilized once it started working consistently. He noted that the ability to progress with the design toward having a production vehicle is dependent on the number of interactions of the prototypes of the spacecraft, multiplied by the progress achieved between each version.
In this video Engineering Today will discuss Spacex Starship progress in company South Texas facility, where SpaceX team is super-busy prepping Starship for its next big test. SpaceX already beginning final assembly of Starship SN1 ahead of roll to the pad.
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