NASA chooses SpaceX Starship for propellant transfer demonstration

SpaceX will partner with NASA's Glenn Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center to demonstrate propellant transfer between tanks on a Starship.

[pleopsidium]

I love it. It's like NASA keeps finding ways to fund Starship development

[thomasgoodwin]

We've been promised the future since the late 50s. 'Bout time that someone figured out how to deliver! GO SPACEX!

[undertow]

People are starting to wake up the reality that starship/super heavy is not a question of can they do it rather its a question of how fast can they do it.

[chinoodin]

That will be a first! Transferring large volumes of Liquid oxygen in space!

[adriantheo]

Great. Nasa is getting more interested at Starship :)

[olliveiromcallister]

In 2020s Created By NASA Futuristic Chooses SpaceX Starship For Propellant Transfer Demonstration

[jcoghill]

Well this has been a long time coming. You want to fly in space you have to learn how to fill the tank. Except this tank can rupture and/or blow up. But this is hardly that kind of refueling. There isn't a guy out there with his hand on the nozzle asking if we want him to check the oil. It's all done by precise alignment of the spacecraft to each other followed by a robot arm attaching the fill hose. Real refueling puts a man out there with a hose and nobody since the beginning of spaceflight has done this highly dangerous operation. We do it on the ground all the time. Space should be no different.

[michaelmcglynn]

Video animation is too fast. Those two craft would never approach one another that quickly.

[coleman]

7th comment and 33rd like! Let's do this space cowboys! 💫

[TheMrPeteChannel]

In orbit refueling is dangerous and highly impractical.

[AMEENIVERSE]

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