{"id":1215199,"date":"2022-01-13T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215199"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:04:23","slug":"watch-elon-musk-unveils-massive-new-device-for-catching-rockets-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-elon-musk-unveils-massive-new-device-for-catching-rockets-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Elon Musk Unveils Massive New Device For Catching Rockets From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-elon-musk-unveils-massive-new-device-for-catching-rockets-from-space%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1215199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video of a tower designed to catch the company\u2019s massive Starship rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Starship \u2014 the vessel that Musk says will eventually take astronauts to Mars \u2014 comes equipped with 29 Raptor engines, stands 400 feet tall, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/vehicles\/starship\/\">able<\/a> to carry over 220,000 pounds into orbit. Earlier this week, Musk gave his Twitter followers a look at the new structure.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Starship launch &amp; catch tower <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5mLIQwwu0k\">pic.twitter.com\/5mLIQwwu0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1480326831031173124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-launch-tower-arms-starship-lift-simulation\/\">Teslarati<\/a> reported that the tower\u2019s \u201carms\u201d are undergoing proof tests from SpaceX:<\/p>\n<p>That process began in earnest on January 4th, when SpaceX lifted, opened, and swung the tower\u2019s building-sized arms for the first time. Four days later, SpaceX performed a variation on the first round of tests, again slowly lifting the assembly up the side of the launch tower and opening and closing the arms. The most notable difference was the addition of several tandem swing tests, which hinted at more applied tests that were soon to come. SpaceX also performed some basic tests with a third Starship fueling arm higher up on the tower, very slowly swinging it towards where Starship would be standing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX could obviously use a giant crawler or tower crane to accomplish a similar feat but cranes \u2014 especially large and tall ones \u2014 are extremely sensitive to wind conditions and effectively become very unsafe to operate in anything more than a brisk breeze. To put it lightly, even the average weather on the South Texas Gulf Coast is anything but conducive to the routine and reliable operation of giant cranes, which is exactly what SpaceX would need to avoid near-future Starship launch and recovery operations being constantly delayed by weather.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spacex-has-begun-constructing-starship-launchpad-in-florida-says-elon-musk\">unveiled<\/a> another stage of the Starship project \u2014 the securing and modification of Pad 39A in Florida, which once served as the iconic launch point for NASA\u2019s Apollo missions and space shuttle flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1466797158737268743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1466797158737268743%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2021%2F12%2F03%2Felon-musk-spacex-starts-construction-of-starship-launchpad-in-florida.html\">tweeted<\/a> the executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c39A is hallowed spaceflight ground \u2014 no place more deserving of a Starship launch pad!\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1466851970443010056\">added<\/a>. \u201cWill have similar, but improved, ground systems &amp; tower to Starbase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA confirmed that SpaceX is \u201cwithin the rights of their lease agreement to make launch infrastructure improvements within the boundaries of the pad.\u201d The agency is not financially supporting the new construction.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, SpaceX has driven a push toward cutting costs through reusable rockets that can land themselves. In the past two years, SpaceX has taken more than 1,900 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\">satellites<\/a> into orbit and carried American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/success-u-s-launches-men-into-space-from-american-soil-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade\">astronauts<\/a> to the International Space Station \u2014 the first time astronauts have launched from American soil in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of space tourism has gained steam in recent months. In July, Virgin Galactic carried a small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/branson-wins-billionaire-space-race-hits-53-miles-above-earth-in-rocket-plane\">crew<\/a> of civilians \u2014 including Richard Branson, the company\u2019s founder \u2014 fifty-three miles above the Earth on a rocket-powered plane. By a margin of only a few days, Branson beat Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billionaire-bezos-blasts-into-space-soars-to-66-5-miles-high-lands-safely-back-on-earth\">mission<\/a> to win the \u201cbillionaire space race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video of a tower designed to catch the company\u2019s massive Starship rocket. Starship \u2014 the vessel that Musk says will eventually take astronauts to Mars \u2014 comes equipped with 29 Raptor engines, stands 400 feet tall, and is able to carry over 220,000 pounds into orbit. Earlier this week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}