Tim Dodd, auch bekannt als "Everyday Astronaut", durfte den Herrn Musk zwei Stunden lang interviewen und alles fragen.
Daraus hat er drei Videos gemacht, zwei sind schon veröffentlicht.
Dauern je eine Stunde und sind nicht immer ganz leicht zu verstehen.
Aber interessant. (Ich habe bisher nur das erste angeschaut.)
Teil 1:
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1]
Teil 2:
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 2]
Es gibt auch eine schriftliche Zusammenfassung der beiden Teile:
Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, interviewed Elon Musk about Starship, its development, Raptor, Starbase, and Musk's engineering philosophy.
everydayastronaut.com
Zum Teil schon sehr interessant was Elon Musk so sagt.
Vier Beispiele:
Musk’s Engineering Philosophy: [...]
Simplify and optimize the design. [...] the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.
[...]
In response to Dodd asking what SpaceX learned from the Space Shuttle, Musk continued stating that the biggest problem with the shuttle was that its design froze. Due to all Space Shuttle missions being crewed, design changes were high risk and low reward. Musk contrasts, stating the biggest advantage of Starship is “Starship does not have anyone on board so we can blow things up. It’s really helpful.”
[...]
Furthermore, Musk noted that SpaceX’s goal is to push the envelope with each vehicle, such that it blows up, as this ensures SpaceX is getting lots of data while not having to store many vehicles. He further noted that every Starship has had major upgrades over the previous vehicle; such is the pace at Starbase. Because of this, the first 10 Starship’s that SpaceX gets back will likely not be reflown, as newer vehicles will be so vastly different.
[...]
On the orbital flight, both the first stage (B4) and the second stage (S20) will be expended, as SpaceX’s goal for the first flight is to “make it to orbit without blowing up”.
tl;dr;
Wenn das Ding explodiert ist besser für SpaceX.
Gruss
Thorsten
