Spacex Starship SN SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? ==== SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? Huge thank to: Our video content is referenced by video sources at these sites: https://everydayastronaut.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://everydayastronaut.com/ https://www.quora.com/ === SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? Hello everyone, Nice to see you all in today's video We would like to thank all of you who have always supported the Great SpaceX channel. Hope that you all have a wonderful day As the title above, in this video, we are going to take a close look into: What is launch abort system and how does it work? Ok. Let’s go to the main content today. SpaceX’s upcoming megarocket, Starship, is quickly coming to life before our eyes. Starship will be the biggest, most powerful rocket to ever fly. Capable of taking 100 people to the surface of Mars AND just as important, back. Not only that, it’ll be a fully reusable rocket. The holy grail of spaceflight… Something that could be absolutely game changing, ushering in a new era of humanity’s access to space. - Now the way abort systems originally worked was by having a trio of wires running down the entire length of the tanks of the rocket. If any TWO of them were severed, it triggered the abort system to fire up the motors and detach the crew module from the rocket within a fraction of a second. The abort motors have to be powerful enough to pull the vehicle away from a failing rocket as quickly as possible. These systems can pull up to 15G’s of acceleration for a few seconds. Now I’m not saying that sounds like fun…. But…. yeah, that actually sounds awful, like being hit by a semi-truck for a few seconds continually… yeah, no thanks! SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? - This configuration with a tower is called a tractor or a puller system since the motors are in front of the vehicle and they pull the vehicle free as opposed to most rocket motors, which are at the bottom end of a vehicle and push it. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Boeing’s Starliner have opted for liquid fueled pusher abort systems, as opposed to a more traditional puller system with solid rocket motors. SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? - But Starship is nothing like that. There is no small separable capsule. There is a huge spaceship which has big engines, huge fuel tanks, lots of cargo space etc. An empty Starship weighs about 5–20 times more than those capsules, but a fully-fueled Starship can weigh over 70–200 times more than those capsules. Escape engines that would be powerful enough to push the whole fully-fueled Starship away from the first stage (“Superheavy”) quickly enough would have to be insanely powerful and heavy. This would make the craft MUCH more heavier, and degrade it’s performance hugely. This is the same reason why also the Space Shuttle Orbiter did not have dedicaed abort engines. SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? - Once Starship has detached from Super Heavy, there really aren’t any abort options other than aborting to a safe reentry profile and then reentering if it can’t achieve orbit. But luckily, with the control surfaces on Starship, they could greatly alter their aerodynamic profile and dynamics for a handful of safe reentry options. SpaceX. How does Starship's Launch Escape System Work? ---- We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines: https://www.youtube.com/intl/en/about/copyright/fair-use/ Any questions about copyright please send us via gmail: colonbina25@gmail.com To be resolved, thank you.

• published: 29 May 2021
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