Booster 9 has received some upgrades ahead of its coming test flight.
SpaceX installs new spacecraft-separation hardware on its Booster 9 Starship Super Heavy prototype.in the wake of that debut, aiming to increase the chances of success on future Starship flights.
The most dramatic change concerns the spacecraft-separation system. It will be quite different on the next Starship mission, which will involve a Super Heavy prototype named Booster 9 and an upper-stage vehicle called Ship 25 — and SpaceX just gave us a sneak peak. "Vented interstage and heat shield installed atop Booster 9. Starship and Super Heavy are being upgraded to use a separation method called hot-staging, where Starship's second stage engines will ignite to push the ship away from the booster," the company wrote today in a"The superhot plasma from the upper-stage engines has gotta go somewhere," Musk told journalist Ashlee Vance in a on June 24, during which he revealed the design change.
Hot staging, which is commonly used on Russian rockets, could end up increasing Starship's payload-to-orbit capacity by 10%, Musk added.
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