Just Happened! SpaceX Revealed 1st Starship Payload Deployed to Orbit that Shocked NASA&Blue Origin

Just Happened! SpaceX Revealed 1st Starship Payload Deployed to Orbit that Shocked NASA&Blue Origin
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Just Happened! SpaceX Revealed 1st Starship Payload Deployed to Orbit that Shocked NASA&Blue Origin
Successful liftoff and landing are merely the starting points in the journey of a rocket. The true measure of Starship’s long-term success lies in its ability to execute its missions effectively.
Recently, SpaceX officially announced that Starship will deploy payloads in space during its Starship Flight 7, paving the potential for billion-dollar missions in the future.
Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
As we know, to maintain financial stability and launch frequency, about 60% of SpaceX's Falcon and Falcon Heavy rocket launches are dedicated to Starlink satellites. The remaining launches carry payloads including satellites and scientific installations from various customers and organizations worldwide.
Just Happened! SpaceX Revealed 1st Starship Payload Deployed to Orbit that Shocked NASA&Blue Origin
This positions Starship—the world's largest reusable rocket, with the ambitious goal of sending humans to Mars—on a development path that addresses every aspect of its mission without concerns about funding throughout its future journey.
Clearly, Starship must first serve as a revenue generator for SpaceX before pursuing its grander ambitions. That moment has now arrived - in SpaceX's latest update regarding the major changes for Flight 7, they announced that Starship V2 will deploy a simulated satellite in space for the first time.
This is a crucial exercise related to the primary function of the spacecraft's cargo bay.
Just Happened! SpaceX Revealed 1st Starship Payload Deployed to Orbit that Shocked NASA&Blue Origin
This mission involves deploying 10 experimental Starlink satellite models designed to accurately replicate the size, weight, and physical characteristics of the next-generation Starlink satellites. While these are not operational satellites, they have been built to test and validate Starship’s deployment systems under realistic conditions.
Using these experimental models ensures the tests are conducted safely without generating space debris, aligning with SpaceX’s commitment to responsible space operations.
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[PeriliousPaddy]

1% information and 99% rehashed old news.

[sidneydunavent]

Since the Starship will not reach orbit, how can the deployed payload be "Deployed to Orbit"?

[starfieldalpha]

Once we get a whole starbase up and running, then we can build in space 🎉

[Celestialexplorer-lae]

How much more space debris can be sent up?

[AdvantestInc]

The shift to a Pez dispenser-like system for payload deployment is a game-changer, efficient and innovative. It’s inspiring to see how this could open doors for larger and more complex missions.

[justachipn]

I wish I were 14 again, as there are many exciting events ahead. However, at 69, I have experienced many of the best of times ever... the things we did in my life time were just amazing !!! I wish I wish...

[CsendesMark]

The JWST uses beryllium for it's mirror for it's high heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and it is segmented because it is cheaper to produce 18 smaller mirror than one monolithic.

[Mordred]

At this rate, they could deploy fig newtons the size of manhole covers in space and day now!

[greggwilliamson]

No-one has even brought up the "small" problem of the crew emergency escape for Starship. How is that supposed to happen? After Challenger you would think that would be pretty important.

[ctuna]

They need to have Robots build the base and see a round trip before they send people .

[danielnogrady]

Elon you sure know how to hire them. That is Definitely your Success.

[Flamtapa]

So does the starship land on mars? Or stays in orbit? How do you even get the payload off the first few ships without towers and no support structures. Seems way off.

[mohzkpy]

If I was in charge of spacex my second priority would be to create and launch a low orbit Oxygen harvester with a powerful Ion engine that uses Nitrogen. This is to defeat air resistance. The harvester docks with a tanker in a higher orbit and supplies the Oxygen. That way the cargo on the tanker launched into space is soley Methane. As a power source, well I remember a ball shaped object on a tether being launched from the space shuttle. The tether generated a current so powerful it blew the cable if I remember right. Perhaps this could be used to power light supercapacitors feeding the Ion engine firing powerful pulses behind the harvester.

[kevinbissett]

Good Morning my Friend. Great Update. I love the way you not only report on the Starship. But plans with the Starship. The detail is priceless. So putting a massive satellite inside of Starship. How would you deploy it? Get it out of the Starship body? Pop the nose up like the C5 Galaxy. Or open up like the old Guppy? Great Episode. Tell me more. Have a Great Day.

[stuartwillardscreenworx]

Hang on the headlines here claims a payload has been deployed to orbit which we know isn’t true so I presume you are judging it will be soon enough for people to be reading that after the event, but why not just say the plan is to do so? Is there really any need to bend the truth one presumes purely for clickbait or through laziness? Objectivity is vital sadly you judge the bigger picture by how news outlets handle the smaller ones and no traditional objective five news channel would play with facts the way you just nonchalantly have. Sad and unnecessary.

[deepredstate]

Thumbs down after 3 seconds of audio...

[alanskyrme]

"Just happened". Headline that prompts me to skip the video.

[pedrosura]

I was about to applaud, then I realized this is “First payload to a sub orbital flight”
Always deception😢

[contestvoter]

I was going to suggest hollow balsa mockups, but that Elon, throwing out fairly accurate birds to deploy. 😊

[HeatherHartman-zi]

I wonder if the first leader of the Mars community will be Emperor Elon.