0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoMassive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flamesinterestingengineering.comexternal-linkmessage-square231fedilinkarrow-up1681arrow-down159
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·6 months ago Hey, go boo the actual bad shit Musk is doing. Ok. Boo. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere https://www.space.com/rocket-exhaust-pollution-upper-atmosphere https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoSooty exhaust from RP-1 and aluminum oxide particulates from discarded upper stages will not be a problem with Starship. Starship uses methalox, and the upper stage is designed to be reusable.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoAlso reusable, like Falcon 9.
Ok. Boo.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere
https://www.space.com/rocket-exhaust-pollution-upper-atmosphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002612
Sooty exhaust from RP-1 and aluminum oxide particulates from discarded upper stages will not be a problem with Starship.
Starship uses methalox, and the upper stage is designed to be reusable.
And the lower stages?
Also reusable, like Falcon 9.