But the catch function still needs some work. 🧐 engineering
. As Musk had told employees last year, Starship must get firing and launch commercial missions by 2022.
Helping it launch frequently is a nifty design trick that SpaceX is attempting and the launch and catch tower is critical to executing it. Unlike the Falcon 9 rockets that SpaceX reuses by landing it back on Earth, Starship's Heavy Booster rocket does not have landing legs. The absence of legs reduces the weight of the booster whose main job is to get the heavy payload off to space, last year. Since the legs have no role in payload deployment, the weight reduction leads to lesser fuel requirement, hence, lesser takeoff weight.
The first stage booster rocket will be reused after it's caught mid-air when it returns to the launch site, negating the need for landing legs. Another second stage Starship can then be shot off to space once the booster rocket is refueled. Musk believes the method could reduce the turnaround time to under an hour.
A Twitter user had made a short animation of how this would work that ElonMusk himself had approved last year.
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