Этот квартет новых инструментов обещает уточнить динамику химической эволюции Вселенной, лучше понять процессы формирования звёзд и планет, углубить знания о структуре нашей Галактики и её ближайших соседей. Но самое главное в том, что эти гиганты, скорее всего, позволят исследователям ответить на вопросы фундаментальной важности, которые сейчас нельзя не только корректно сформулировать, но и даже вообразить.

SpaceX is taking everything up a notch with Starship. This thing is the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering, a FULLY and rapidly reusable super heavy lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 metric tonnes to low Earth orbit.

But Starship’s ultimate goal goes way beyond just terrestrial orbital ambitions, Starship is the first vehicle designed to actually take human beings to Mars and back again.

In order to achieve this absolutely bonkers goal, SpaceX has had to employ a litany of new technologies, use new materials, develop the most advanced rocket engines ever made and come up with some wild ideas that have never been tried before… and maybe for good reason.

So today I wanted to go over all of these new technologies and compare it to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy to help point out what things are new, what things are different and what they’ve learned from the Falcon family that will apply to Starship in order to really understand just how ambitious this project is.

We won’t be just scratching…