It only takes 39 minutes from new york to Shanghai? Something happened to Musk's starship: the heavy propeller blew itself up.

During this time, because some photos of the starship accident spread on social media, it triggered everyone's speculation: Did the American Space Transportation Company's starship have an accident in the ignition test at the beginning of the month?

You know, Musk had high hopes for this starship, and publicly released a series of grandiloquence. For example, it is estimated that its top speed can reach 27,000 kilometers per hour, that is to say, it only takes 39 minutes to travel from new york to Shanghai. Or wait until 2024, you can land on Mars through it, even within 40 years to 100, you can immigrate thousands of "earthlings" to Mars, and then build a Mars city directly on it!

So, is there really something wrong with the starship? Musk himself has answered this question. He didn't deny the photos of the accident that everyone saw, indicating that these photos are true. The starship did have an accident during the ignition test, and the accident occurred during the pressure test. The fuel pipe of the booster 7 propeller exploded directly at that time, causing the heavy propeller to partially blow up.

Saturn V has a long history. At that time, it also had a name called lunar rocket. As we all know, the United States is the only country in the world that successfully manned the moon. It has been more than 50 years since it sent 12 astronauts to the moon six times. However, at that time, the United States could make such great achievements in the space field, of course, without Saturn V super heavy launch vehicle!

From 1967 to 1973, the number of Saturn V launch vehicles launched by the United States reached 13, of which 9 were successfully put into lunar orbit. This achievement can be said to be excellent, including the Skylab space station, which was also sent into low earth orbit through Saturn V.

The Saturn V launch vehicle in the United States is also very large, with a take-off weight of more than 3,000 tons and a height of more than 1 10 meter, reaching a low-earth orbit carrying capacity of 1 18 tons and a lunar orbit carrying capacity of 45 tons. Its propellants are kerosene and liquid oxygen. Although Saturn V also launched a mission in 1973, its production line was closed as early as 1970, so some people wondered, since the United States has a lot of successful experience in landing on the moon, why not rebuild it directly with Saturn V's design blueprint, but spend more time developing a new rocket similar to starship?

Many people should have seen the saying that the design blueprint of Saturn V was destroyed, but NASA said that the design blueprint is still well preserved, but there is no need to waste resources to rebuild the production line of Saturn V, because in their view, it is not difficult to design the blueprint, and it is even more difficult to find the hardware equipment manufacturers in the mid-1960s, including the assembly workshop of that year, which has also been rebuilt, and the site for rocket launch is gone.

In addition, American experts also believe that although Saturn V was very powerful at that time, it was still relatively backward compared with today's space technology in the United States, so it took time to develop its successor, and the successor's name was the space launch system, not the starship mentioned above, and its carrying capacity could reach 143 tons or even 165 tons!

Musk should be known to many people. He is different from the average rich man. He is keen on going to the moon, Mars and emigrating to other planets. In 2002, Musk invested in the establishment of American Space Transportation Company, which is often seen as "Space Exploration Technology Company"!

Not long ago, four space tourists were sent into space by their "Dragon" spacecraft. They should have returned to Earth a few days ago, but they stayed on the International Space Station for a few days because of the weather. However, the focus of today's talk is not the "Dragon" spacecraft and those space tourists, but the starship of the American Space Transportation Company, whose original name is the Large Falcon Rocket.

Since 20 12, this space transportation company has been transporting goods to the international space station, including some important samples. At present, Musk's space exploration technology company mainly has three tasks, one is to speed up the deployment of so-called star-chain satellites, the other is to continue to use the Falcon 9 rocket during regular launches, and the third is to vigorously develop starships.

Everyone knows that China is building its own space station, which is expected to be completed in 2022. It is expected that when the International Space Station retires, only our space station will be in orbit. At present, 17 countries have successfully applied to join the space station in China for research, including Japanese, Russian and Indian, while the United States was rejected because it did not meet the requirements.

As mentioned earlier, the satellite link is one of the important projects of American Space Exploration Technology Corporation. The China Space Station was almost hit twice in 20021year, but it was safe after the implementation of "emergency collision avoidance" twice. In April 2022, because of the solar storm, 40 satellite chains were scrapped at one time, which made NASA warn not to affect the safety of the International Space Station!