What is SpaceX doing to make Starship faster?

What is SpaceX doing to make Starship faster?

SpaceX is designing Starship to ensure that acceleration environments are well within industry standard levels. During flight, the payload will experiencea range of axial and lateral accelerations. Both the Super Heavy and Starship engines can be throttledto help maintainlaunchvehicleand payload accelerationlimits.

What does SpaceX do for NASA?

SpaceX provides further support to NASA with the Dragon spacecraft by conducting cargo resupply and return missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Soon, SpaceX will begin transporting crew to the ISS as well.

What is SpaceX’s plan for reusability?

Soon, SpaceX will begin transporting crew to the ISS as well. To offer competitive launch and resupply services, SpaceX has incorporated reusability into the Falcon and Dragon systems, which improves vehicle reliability while reducing cost.

What is SpaceX’s payload separation system?

SpaceX provides in-flight commanding and monitoring of the payload separation system(s). Starship can perform 3-axis attitude controlled or spin-stabilized spacecraft separation. Note that certain spacecraft separation maneuvers may reduce available payload volume. Collision avoidance maneuvers will be performed as required.

Will SpaceX’s Starship Artemis return to Earth?

SpaceX said the Starship tailored for Artemis missions will not fly with a heat shield of landing flaps used for return to Earth. Instead, the vehicle would remain in space for multiple trips between the moon’s surface and lunar orbit.

Will SpaceX’s Starship become a crewed lunar lander?

NASA awarded SpaceX a $135 million contract Thursday to advance the design of the Starship transporter for potential use as a crewed lunar lander. The space agency also inked a $579 million agreement with Blue Origin and a $253 million deal with Dynetics for work on their own human-rated lunar lander concepts.