{"id":117813,"date":"2020-12-31T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacex-will-attempt-to-catch-starships-super-heavy-rocket-booster-instead-of-landing-it"},"modified":"2020-12-31T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:22:16","slug":"spacex-will-attempt-to-catch-starships-super-heavy-rocket-booster-instead-of-landing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/spacex-will-attempt-to-catch-starships-super-heavy-rocket-booster-instead-of-landing-it","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will attempt to \u2018catch\u2019 Starship\u2019s Super Heavy rocket booster instead of landing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-attempt-to-catch-starships-super-heavy-rocket-booster-instead-of-landing-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla will need a landing platform to catch the rocket as it lands. According to Elon Musk its to save mass\/weight and speed up the rockets readiness for its next launch.<\/p>\n<p>This is for Tesla\u2019s reusable rocket program.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX aims to develop a fully reusable Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle, capable of performing multiple flights per day. Musk shared that not adding landing legs to the Super Heavy rocket \u201cSaves mass &amp; cost of legs &amp; enables immediate repositioning of booster on to launch mount \u2014 ready to refly in under an hour,\u201d he said. When asked if the decision to eliminate the legs is due to the high stress the vehicle would experience upon landing Musk responded, \u201cLegs would certainly work, but best part is no part, best step is no step,\u201d he wrote via Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>Saves mass &amp; cost of legs &amp; enables immediate repositioning of booster on to launch mount \u2014 ready to refly in under an hour\u2014 Elon Musk (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\">@elonmusk<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1344342598694047744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 302020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>Legs would certainly work, but best part is no part, best step is no step\u2014 Elon Musk (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\">@elonmusk<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1344344378974720000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 302020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla will need a landing platform to catch the rocket as it lands. According to Elon Musk its to save mass\/weight and speed up the rockets readiness for its next launch. This is for Tesla\u2019s reusable rocket program. SpaceX aims to develop a fully reusable Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle, capable of performing multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}