{"id":16491,"date":"2024-04-26T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/?p=16491"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:49:06","slug":"critical-analysis-of-spacexs-next-generation-space-transportation-system-starship-and-super-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/critical-analysis-of-spacexs-next-generation-space-transportation-system-starship-and-super-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Analysis of SpaceX\u2019s Next Generation Space Transportation System: Starship and Super Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jascha Wilken, Martin Sippel, Michael Berger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI Number XXX-YYY-ZZZ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Number HiSST-2022-210<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in the history of spaceflight a fully reusable launch system appears possible within the<br>near future. Since its presentation in 2016 SpaceX\u2019s next generation space transport system has gone<br>through multiple names and design iterations but some key design features remained constant: Full<br>reusability, Full-Flow Staged Combustion engines and deeply subcooled LOX\/LCH4 as propellants.<br>The current design iteration is of special interest because hardware is being integrated and the first<br>test flights, including landings, of the upper stage have been completed. A key feature of this iteration<br>is the novel approach to use a \u201cskydiving\u201d maneuver to dissipate as much energy as possible through<br>aerodynamic forces before initiating a landing burn and landing vertically.<br>The implications of a fully reusable system of this size on the orbital launch market are significant even<br>if the ambitious plans for quick turnaround of stages are not fulfilled right from the beginning.<br>Within this paper, the two-staged system is analyzed from a technical perspective based on publicly<br>available information. The principal goal is to form an understanding of the high-level system properties.<br>Of special interest are the return methods, which exhibit some novel properties. Overall a reasonable<br>agreement between the generated models and the publicly available information is found. The design<br>and its driving factors are discussed and a fundamental understanding of the high-level properties of<br>the system is attained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HiSST-2022-210.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HiSST-2022-210.pdf\">Read the full paper > <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jascha Wilken, Martin Sippel, Michael Berger<\/b><\/p>\n<p>DOI Number XXX-YYY-ZZZ<\/p>\n<p>Conference Number HiSST-2022-210<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1006],"tags":[1403,552,1401,1402,660],"class_list":["post-16491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-speed-missions-and-vehicles-hisst-2022","category-hisst-2022","tag-ffsc","tag-rlv","tag-spacex","tag-starship","tag-trajectory","category-1009","category-1006","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16492,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16491\/revisions\/16492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerospacerepository.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}