Analysis Super Heavy BOOSTER 5 ! What Makes Booster 5 Different From Booster4!

Analysis Super Heavy BOOSTER5 ! What Makes Booster 5 Different From Booster4!

Spacex teams slowly prepare the first orbital class starship and super heavy booster.

For the next generation rockets, first full stack launch, the company has simultaneously begun assembling a second ship booster pair, the latest prototype of starship would be a great combination of ship 21 and booster 5.

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SpaceX appears to have delivered hardware, that will eventually become part of the first 33-engine Super Heavy booster, to its South Texas Starbase factory.

Coming either from SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California headquarters and Falcon rocket factory or a smaller fabrication shop, colocated on the company’s McGregor, Texas development and testing campus.

The giant coin-like structure was spotted arriving at Starbase on Tuesday afternoon. Unlike Falcon boosters, the latest variant of which relies, on a structure known as an octaweb that’s bolted together, from dozens of structural elements, SpaceX has moved towards more monolithic ‘thrust pucks’ for Starship and Super Heavy.

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Starship’s central ‘thrust puck’ is just two or so meters in diameter, and designed to support the ship’s three gimballing Raptor Center engines.

Super Heavy’s puck’ is actually more like a giant steel coin, than Starship’s almost conical thrust structure, measuring some 5-6 meters, 16 to 20 ft across, but no more than a few inches (~10 cm) thick. It’s also designed to support a good deal more than three Raptors.

That’s where Tuesday’s deliver becomes significant. Unlike older booster thrust pucks, one of which was actually delivered to Starbase likely for Super Heavy B5, or B6 just last week, this newer puck features a few design changes.

Most importantly, it bumps the number of Raptor Center engine hardpoints to 13. Slightly earlier instances – including the puck currently packed with Raptors on Super Heavy Booster 4, have an outer circle of eight Raptors and a ninth engine at the very center.

According to Musk, though, SpaceX might not have to wait long to find out just how viable a recovery method ‘Mechazilla’ really is and will “hopefully” attempt to catch Super Heavy Booster 5, after Starship’s second orbital launch attempt.

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[kevinmccarthy]

What kind of material or combination of is it made out of.

[tonyug]

Does anyone know whether superheavy and/or starship would float -- i mean it will consist mainly of presumably sealed? empty (well full of air?) tanks.

[keithmayes]

It really would be great if the starship booster could be caught by mechezilla, but in order to do so I think its landing would need to be better than the Falcon 9 landings because although they do land on the recovery vessels fairly near the target centre I’m not sure that is going to be close enough, but I do hope so.