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So, how do you build a brand new style of orbital rocket? Clean rooms, oompaloompa suits, exotic composites, hard to find fuels, right? Well, maybe not. SpaceX is engaged in building the second form of functional test articles leading to the upcoming Starship/Super Heavy spaceship/booster combo. Out in the open, using stainless steel plate, welders, grinders, and rented mallifts and cranes. Almost all effort now on the Spaceship orbital test articles, since those are the biggest unknowns. The Super Heavy first stage, will be a larger version of the Falcon that they have mastered, with 39 of them successfully landed. The Starship is reusable also and it's landing profile is all new, a mix of shuttle belly down reentry followed by a switch to a vertical landing like the Falcon. Here are a few pics of the flurry of constriction of MK1 in Texas. All this visible from the raod thats only a few hundred feet from the test site.
Mark 1 at Boca Chica Texas
Mark 2 in Cocoa Florida, note ring secions, suspected to be used for Super Heavy construction
This is the profile these test articles will be flying. Building up, of course.....
Mark 1 at Boca Chica Texas
Mark 2 in Cocoa Florida, note ring secions, suspected to be used for Super Heavy construction
This is the profile these test articles will be flying. Building up, of course.....