Assuming this September, SpaceX does its first launch and it explodes
during descent.
How many succesfull launches would it take before SpaceX can start to
accept commercial payloads? (since ability to land doesn't matter for launhing satellites) ?
Can SpaceX launch to equatorial orbit from Boca Chica?
And assuming that the payload bay is similar to the Shuttle, could
spaceX re-use its existing 2nd stage and sateliute/2nd stage interface
and use springs to push it out of the cargo bay once doors are open? Or
would it need totally new system to get satellite to destination?
(I assume Starship won't itself deliver to geostationary or even GPS altitudes).
It could, with refueling, and there will be payloads where that's the appropriate choice. There aren't now, but there will be.
Can SpaceX launch to equatorial orbit from Boca Chica?
On Wednesday or thereabouts, Sylvia Else declared ...
On 26-Aug-21 10:03 am, JF Mezei wrote:
Can SpaceX launch to equatorial orbit from Boca Chica?
No - to launch to equatorial orbit, you need to be on the equator, or at
least be very close to it.
Or you need to be very careful where you do the plane changes, which means at a higher orbit.
On 2021-08-25 22:55, Snidely wrote:
It could, with refueling, and there will be payloads where that's the
appropriate choice. There aren't now, but there will be.
Does it make sense to launch 2 super heavies, one to refuel starship o
it can deliver payload to geostationay altitude and then come back?
People complained about Shuttle being inefficient because of its total
weight vs payload. Won't the same argument apply to Starship being used
to deliver satellite to Geo?
And in turn of Starlink, once it goes into a mode of constantly
replacing satellites that fall down, does launching Starship with a
gazillion gapacity only to deliver 10 in a particular orbital plane make sense?
or is the plan to launch 120 new ones to a new orbital plane and abandon
all satellites in old orbital plane neary? Again, seems wasteful.
On 26-Aug-21 10:03 am, JF Mezei wrote:
Can SpaceX launch to equatorial orbit from Boca Chica?
No - to launch to equatorial orbit, you need to be on the equator, or at least be very close to it.
Remember Wednesday, when JF Mezei asked plainitively:
On 2021-08-25 22:55, Snidely wrote:
It could, with refueling, and there will be payloads where that's the
appropriate choice. There aren't now, but there will be.
Does it make sense to launch 2 super heavies, one to refuel starship o
it can deliver payload to geostationay altitude and then come back?
It depends on the payload.
People complained about Shuttle being inefficient because of its total
weight vs payload. Won't the same argument apply to Starship being used
to deliver satellite to Geo?
It depends on the payload.
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