SpaceX New Video Of Mars Mission Rocket Starship 1 Hidden On Youtube?
After showing off the grand exterior of SpaceX's new spaceship during the Saturday presentation in Texas, CEO Elon Musk has tried to offer a peek into the spaceship’s interior via a video along with insights on the company’s space plans.
On Monday, SpaceX uploaded a 2-minute video on Youtube painting the futuristic vision of how it wants to ferry humans to Mars and other planets on affordable costs on the emerging Starship.
But the video was technically unlisted on Youtube. It appeared later on a new site that SpaceX created to promote the Mars Starship.
The Saturday presentation by the SpaceX CEO gave a comprehensive design update about Starship and Super Heavy, the reusable spacecraft and rocket that will be used for Mars colonization.
Musk gave the presentation standing before the newly assembled stainless-steel Starship Mk1, the prototype of the 100-passenger spacecraft.
The video unveils the vision of Musk on the Starship and how it could become the first reusable launch system. SpaceX animation details the vision on the Mars plan.
The 2-stages starship system will have one 164 foot tall starship spaceship proper and a 223-foot tall booster.
The animation shows how it would fire back to the land on its own after the spaceship detaches above a certain altitude and start going ahead under its propulsion.
On Oct. 1, Tuesday Musk also posted a 10-second video on Twitter that showed the cargo bay of the spacecraft with its a whopping 30 feet width and a sumptuous glimpse of the interior of the 165-foot-tall Mk1.
The prototype Mk1 will use three next-generation Raptor engines in proto tests whereas the final version will have six Raptors, and the Super Heavy will use 37 Raptor engines.
The 146-foot stainless steel Mk1 is expected to make its first flight in another two months. The prototype will launch an uncrewed, 12-mile-high jaunt into the skies above the South Texas facility of SpaceX.
NASA plans on Mars
Meanwhile, the search on Mars facts by NASA is making progress after its Mars Rovers experiments.
The InSight mission of NASA involving a stationary probe's seismometer started listening out for quakes on Mars since late 2018.
Seismic activity is key to the knowledge about the interior of a planet.
InSight landed on Mars in November 2018. After a long lull, it recorded a strong seismic signal on April 6 and it was a probable quake within the planet.
InSight then detected more than 100 events and researchers said 20 of them could be Martian quakes.
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