Musk is worthy of the most lively business wizard, using the "starship" scrap material to make a stainless steel whistle, selling for $50 a piece, the key is less than 2 hours on the line, it was seconds to light, comparable to Apple's polishing cloth. Although Musk claims to be final sale and will not sell it again, listening to the words of the new world's richest man who "cut the door" to cut out the sky, how can the editor not believe it? After all, he still has a bunch of "starship" wreckage, and recently, the outside world has finally seen high-definition pictures of these "starship" wreckage.
First time to see hd pictures of the wreckage of a starship
Judging from the picture, these wreckage can only be described as "unbearable to see", and they were blown to pieces and their heads were in a different place. However, the head and gliding rudder surface of the "Starship" are still relatively complete, the corrugated steel in the middle can also be faintly recognized, and as for the tail, only some pipes are left, in addition, there is really only a deflated empty shell. Ask a simple arithmetic question, if these wreckage were used to make a stainless steel whistle for $50 a piece, how much would Musk earn?
Do you guess how many whistles this pile can make?
It's really stainless steel
On December 10, 2020, the 50-meter-long "starship" SN8 crashed during a 12.5-kilometer flight test, and Musk was satisfied with the test results, saying that most of it was successful. Then, on February 3, 2021, the starship SN9 crashed in another 10-kilometer flight test, and Musk said that he got all the data needed; a month later, on March 3, the starship SN10 successfully flew 10 kilometers and landed, but suddenly exploded and destroyed after landing steadily, and Musk was only happy for 8 minutes.
The starship crashed to the ground in an instant
On March 30, 2021, the starship SN11 conducted a flight test at an altitude of about 10 kilometers for the fourth time, this time more tragically, directly disintegrating in the air. Because the incident was foggy weather at the time, so the explosion was "unconscious", the ground only knew that after the "starship" lifted off for 5 minutes and 49 seconds, the camera signal disappeared, spaceX's live host was very experienced, and directly said at the time: It looks like another exciting test flight, don't wait any longer, it will not come back.
Later, I checked the picture and found that it was still filmed
The "starship" did not even fly to the sub-orbit, creating a rare "four-in-a-row explosion" in human history, worthy of the "eyebrow clear eye show, martial arts wizard". As for the wreckage in these high-definition pictures, which explosion was generated? First of all, it can be ruled out that it was the fourth time, because the "starship" SN11 was blown up and the slag was gone. The first SN8 and the second SN9 are also unlikely, because the rocket fell out of control from a high altitude and could accurately land back to the launch point, so it should be the third launch, that is, the wreckage of SN10, because it exploded after 8 minutes on the ground.
It should be the wreckage of the third launch
However, to be honest, such a "four-in-a-row explosion" is replaced by any "national team", and there will be a lot of responsibility afterwards, and the entire project will be dismounted, just like the Soviet N1 lunar rocket. But for private bossEsker and commercial space company SpaceX, the explosion is blown up, they really got all the data they needed, adding experience points, so the "starship" SN15 launched on May 26, 2021, after a major technical upgrade, finally achieved a 10-kilometer flight test success, and this may be the advantage of private spaceflight.
This dragon swing tail is really handsome
Don't rush to kneel, now, the first orbital class launch of the "starship" seems to be facing the embarrassment of the "four consecutive explosions" from SN8 to SN11. The Starship S20 and booster Super Heavy B5 have been around for a long time, but after a "fusion", there has been no new big move. The orbital-level launches at the end of this year have also been postponed to early next year, and Musk is even ready to win as long as they don't explode on the launch pad.
Not exploding on the launch pad is victory
Even if the S20 and B5 are successfully launched, they are only sub-complete bodies of the "starship", far from a new generation of carrier rockets that can really carry out low-Earth orbit launch missions, not to mention the future manned version, the lunar version and the deep space version, which requires the head of the "starship" to be made into a spaceship several stories high, and now the "starship" has not even completely finished the heatwave, and there is almost no experience in the radiation protection of deep space spacecraft, not to mention a bunch of US government departments and environmental protection organizations. In the face of these scorched things, Musk transformed into an Internet celebrity, with goods stainless steel whistle, perhaps a better way out.
The starship is a ship-arrow combination, and the head is the spaceship
Musk still sells whistles