Future Space
Uncovering the Insane Plan to Fuel Elon Musk’s Starship in Orbit Many people considered it nothing more than a project that would burn through money without ever taking flight It all starts with the Starship’s remarkable rocket engine known as the Raptor This engine a feat of engineering on its own broke records by achieving the highest combustion chamber pressure ever recorded at 350 bars generating over half a million pounds of force And yet that fuel also needs additional fuel to lift the initial amount leading to an exponential need for an outrageously large rocket just to venture anywhere at all And that is precisely the ingenious plan for Starship’s in-orbit refueling Following closely behind a sequence of additional tanker Starships will ascend rendezvousing with the first Starship and transferring their surplus fuel Another aspect of the Starship that drew significant skepticism was its unconventional choice of stainless steel as the primary construction material
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