The U.S. plan to return to the moon is once again facing a big challenge, and the U.S. can't stand it anymore after the two explosions of the starship, so it directly refuses to give money.
That's right, since the implementation of the Apollo program of the United States, the delay of more than 50 years of manned lunar landing has also made the United States face a major dilemma, and it is completely unfriendly in the new round of manned lunar missions.
Along the way, it is either such a problem or that problem, so many people are questioning whether the previous Apollo program of the United States was successful, and it can only be said here that no institution and research center has denied it, and China has also obtained lunar samples, which proves that the American moon landing is real, which is nothing to say.
The bumps and bumps in the new round of the United States landing on the moon are mainly due to the fact that the challenges faced by the development of new rockets and technologies are too great, so that more plans cannot be completed perfectly, so there is such a problem.
So can the American starship and the American manned moon landing be linked? Isn't this hacking others? Don't you say, this is really not black, let's take a look at what is going on.
Musk's Starlink exploded twice
True, Starship is indeed quite a rocket, after its first flight in April of this year, Starship exploded, after which it was refined more than 1,000 times, after which it was tested for the second time, and for the first time a thermal separation system and a new electronic thrust vectoring control system were demonstrated.
But seriously, this time the technical test is still quite perfect, compared to the last time a lot of progress, the starship successfully lifted off and completed the interstage separation under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the super-heavy booster, which is worth affirming, but in the back, there was a loss of contact, and the explosion, did not complete the entire test mission, so, this also made the whole mission finally end early.
It is true that it is not easy to complete the launch of the starship, the main thing is that it is really strong enough.
This is a heavy-lift launch vehicle with a reusable design, the rocket consists of two parts: the take-off stage is called the "Super Heavy Booster", and 33 "Raptor" liquid oxygen methane engines are installed in parallel, of which 13 are built to change the direction of thrust, with a maximum thrust of about 7,600 tons; The maximum carrying capacity is 250 tons in low earth orbit and 150 tons in recoverable state.
So, once Musk's starship succeeds, it will really be a human miracle.
Of course, many people also see that Musk's Starship cannot succeed, because this technology was used in the Soviet era, and after many failures, it was also announced to stop.
Moreover, the Soviet Union also achieved full engine ignition, but in the end it was not completed.
It can only be said here that the Soviet Union did use the technology, but whether it can succeed or not does not mean anything, after all, the development of modern technology has been constantly integrated, so it cannot be said here that Musk's starship will definitely not succeed, there is no absolute explanation, and it is not excluded that after the continuous "explosion", the real sense of the fusion point has been found, and everyone can still look forward to it.
So how did the Musk Starship affect the American manned landing on the moon?
It's true that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, but it does have a certain relationship, and there is no hacking anyone.
As you know, the success or failure of Musk's starship also determines the stable implementation of the US "Artemis 3" manned lunar landing program.
In August 2023, NASA publicly stated that if the development of key systems cannot keep up, the "Artemis 3" manned lunar landing program may not ultimately include astronauts landing on the moon, because if key equipment such as the manned lunar landing system (that is, the lunar version of "Starship") developed by SpaceX is not in place in time, "we may end up with a different mission (than planned)."
In other words, Musk's Starship is related to the American lunar landing system - the lunar version of "Starship", and it just so happens that this is the American SLS rocket + "Orion" spacecraft + lunar version of "Starship" The three most critical parts are indispensable.
Do you say it has a relationship? There must be a relationship. Of course, NASA has actually lost some of its "confidence" after the explosion of the first flight of the American Starship, because NASA no longer fully wants to rely on the Starship, and has also signed an additional contract with Blue Origin to develop a second manned lunar lander, which will make its first manned flight as part of the Artemis 5 mission.
Although the "backup" lunar lander is smaller than the lunar version of the "Starship", with a payload of only 20 tons, this backup description also shows that NASA has "two hearts".
Therefore, NASA saw that the progress of the "Starship" was delayed, and there were some uncertainties in technology, and decided to choose a "spare tire" for the lunar version of the "Starship", which also shows that there is not much time left for the successful mission of the Starship, if it continues like this, the United States will face greater challenges in returning to the moon, and it can only quickly "backup the moon" research and hand it over to Blue Origin.
No, after the second failure, the US plan to return to the moon once again faced a major challenge, and it did not give money directly.
After the two failures of the starship, the United States stopped giving the starship money
That's right, foreign media pointed out that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to reject SpaceX's application for a subsidy for Starlink satellite Internet service. And this subsidy of 855 million US dollars (about 6.1 billion yuan), the reason for the FCC's refusal is also direct enough, saying that the Starship test flight was unsuccessful, which led to their lack of confidence in SpaceX.
If that were the case, it would seem that there could be another controversy in the United States over the return to the moon.
If the United States does not approve the money for Musk's research, it will not allow the starship research to be further delayed, and the time to build a lunar version of the starship will most likely continue to be delayed.
Therefore, this time the United States has picked up a stone and shot itself in the foot, which does not affect what the entire lunar program is. It seems that the US GAO said that it may be difficult for the United States to complete the moon landing before 2025, at least in 2027, and this statement will become true again.
Then it will be up to China to perform, China is scheduled to complete the moon landing by 2030 as planned, and if the United States bumps all the way, it may really end up being about the same time as China's moon landing.
Therefore, it is really too difficult for the United States to return to the moon, and now there are internal problems, and technical and other problems have not been solved. #文章首发挑战赛#