SpaceX will need another six weeks to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy/Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster's Texas launch pad before it will be ready for a second attempt to reach orbit, company founder Elon Musk said.
SpaceX will need another six weeks or so to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy/Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster's Texas launch pad before it will be ready for a second attempt to reach orbit, company founder Elon Musk said Saturday.
During the Super Heavy's maiden flight, a half-dozen engines shut down or never started and the Starship never separated from the Super Heavy first stage. "We shut down most of the engines on the booster, leaving just a few running and then at the same time, start the engines on the ship, or upper stage," he said."Obviously that results in kind of blasting the booster, so you've got to protect the top of the boost stage from getting incinerated by the opera stage engines."
Addressing engine problems seen during the rocket's first flight, Musk said engineers are implementing changes to the Raptor's hot gas manifold that directs super-heated methane-rich gas toward the combustion chamber. The high temperatures can create leak paths through bolt holes where the manifold is attached.
"On top of that, we have a sort of a steel sandwich, which is basically two thick plates of steel that are welded together with channels going through perforations in the top so it will actually shoot a lot of water out," he said.
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