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 a starship's long-term success lies in its ability to execute missions effectively and recently SpaceX officially announced that Starship will be deploying payloads in space during Starship flight 7 which paves the way for potential billion dooll missions in the future let's find out more in today's episode of alphat tech and thanks for joining us so as we know to maintain Financial stability and launch frequency about 60% of spacex's Falcon and Falcon heavy rocket launches are dedicated to Starling satellites the remaining launches carry payloads including satellites and scientific installations from various customers and organizations worldwide this position Starship the world's largest reusable rocket with the Ambitions of getting humans to Mars on a development path that addresses every aspect of its Mission without concerns about funding throughout its future Journey J clearly Starship must first serve as a revenue generator for SpaceX before pushing its grander Ambitions and that moment has now arrived in spacex's latest update regarding the major changes for flight 7 they announced that Starships V2 will deploy a simulated satellite in space for the first time this is a crucial exercise related to the primary functions of the spacecraft's cargo bay this Mission involves deploying 10 experimental starlink satellite models designed to accurately replicate the size weight and physical characteristics of the Next Generation Starling 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 that the tests are conducted safely without generating space debris aligning with spacex's commitment to responsible space operations the models will be placed in Leo alongside Starship enabling Engineers to gather data on the deployment process in a complex and challenging environment they're designed to splash down in the Indian Ocean marking the conclusion of this phase of the mission and allowing for recovery and Analysis to assess the Precision and efficiency of the deployment system moreover this Mission provides a valuable opportunity to evaluate the Dynamics and structure of payload deployment in low earth orbit offering critical insights for the design and execution of future space missions ultimately successfully demonstrating the ability to deploy multiple at ites in a single Mission will solidify starship's role as a coste effective and efficient platform for building and maintaining satellite networks including the expansion of spacex's Starling constellation the satellites being simulated represent spacex's new V3 satellites which are likely to be the first operational payloads that Starship will carry indeed bringing Starship into operation is a pivotal step in spacex's plans to accelerate the deployment of Starling constellation and reduce the cost per satellite launch currently SpaceX launches starlink satellites using the Falcon 9 rocket however the Next Generation V3 satellites are expected to be significantly heavier than the current V2 mini spacecraft thanks to starship's incredible payload capacity SpaceX has stated plans to deploy 60 V3 satellites per Starship launch this would add an impressive 60 terabits per second to capacity in the starlink network each V3 satellite will provide 10 times the downlink capacity and 24 the Uplink capacity of the V2 mini satellites and that significantly speeds up the overall performance of starlink to achieve the goal of launching the Starship V3 satellites space 6 has had to continuously revise the design of all components related to starship's payload deployment to maximize efficiency during testing first the initial payload Bay of Starship featured a massive clam shell door for deploying large cargo however that design was abandoned in favor of New Concept known as the Pez dispenser named after the rectangular candy and its Associated dispenser toy in some form the dispenser has been present on every Starship flight today although the door was sealed during the first and second test flights as for changes to the payload Bay across different Starship prototypes as we mentioned in a previous video for older prototypes where SpaceX had no intention of carrying payloads likely from ship 31 and earlier the payload Bay was often repurposed with large frame structures to reinforce the vehicle's Integrity for newer ships starting with ship 32 the payload bait seems to have been significantly expanded by reconfiguring the interior with lowprofile vertical supports reducing structural impact on the payload volume the results of these changes on newer ships is a considerably expanded lower section of the nose cone to accommodate more cargo second the Pez sliding door as a reusable launch vehicle Starship requires a payload door that can open and close multiple times instead of a single use deployment cover while the Pez door appears similar between the two generations of ships it's undergone several upgrades the door opening has been redesigned with a rounded shape to eliminate potential stress points in the previous Square design the Dual plating has also been simplified with only two plate layers on the sides and a single layer on the top and bottom the sliding door panels have been reinforced to prevent deformation the drive system for the pest door has also been redesigned for greater Flex ability and opening and closing the payload Bay finally the Pez dispenser the Pez dispenser serves as starship's payload adapter for starlink V3 allowing the spacecraft to carry a large number of these flat satellites into low earth orbit before ship 33 there were two variants of the Pez dispenser neither of which was used in Flight the upgraded Pez dispenser often photographed on an assembly platform is a large white structure equipped with these access platforms and stairs the structure is not housed within the spacecraft and is only used during the assembly and installation of the dispenser however continual upgrades are essential SpaceX is redesigned it in simpler form likely to reduce the weight of this structure as it will need to return to Earth along with Starship all these upgrades will be tested during Starship flight 7 the flight promises to be an impressive demonstration of the Relentless effort toward attaining starship's goals now in the long run Starship will undoubtedly serve as the key player in the space economy offering more efficient payload deployment than any other space company out there with a 150 ton payload to orbit at around a million a launch Elon has suggested that Starship could deliver payloads to orbit for as little as 10 a kilo depending on the vehicle's flight rate and how much of the savings SpaceX passes on to customers in comparison spacex's Starship with full reusability could potentially be priced similarly to spacex's Falcon which is around $67 million initially but with a higher launch rate the cost could go down even further it has the potential to launch more payload and more crew members at a lower price than any other space vehicle ever existing said Laura foric executive director of the space industry Consulting fan Astra analytical Furthermore with its 9M wide Fairing and virtually unlimited payload capacity handling big satellite designs is no longer going to be a challenge historically almost every application in space has been constrained by something known as swap which stands for size weight and power satellite bus manufacturers have been forced to use costly lightweight components that are specifically designed for spacecraft that need to fit inside current Rockets perfect example of this is the James web Space Telescope in order to fit the required Mission capabilities within swap constraints the designers of the JW had to develop a highly complex Deployable segmented mirror to fit within the volume budget use expensive and novel barilan mirrors to fit within the mass budget and design low power instruments and thermal conditioning Hardware to fit within the power budget this kind of complexity dramatically UPS the cost of emission in the world of Starship things will become a lot simpler instead of these complex unfolding segmented mirrors you could use a large monolithic mirror instead of expensive brillium mirrors you could use simpler and cheaper materials with lower stiff to mass ratios similar to those used in groundbased telescopes instead of expensive instruments additional power could be used to make simpler and cheaper ones with more robust thermal conditioning capabilities the potential for change exists across every type of mission in space it will become possible to have a satellite bus platform that has more power more payload volume and more payload Mass but one that comes in at the cost of a small satellite in a world with launch Vehicles like Starship satellite based Communications providers will be able to use the increased power to have greater throughput remote sensing players will be able to use more volume to have larger apertures and National Security missions will no longer need to make the trade-off between single Exquisite satellites and constellations of low capability small satellites although it's never reached orbit Starship holds valuable contracts to carry its first satellites in 2022 Japanese satellite operator Sky perfect jet announced that it selected spacex's Starship to launch its super bird n satellites to a GTO as early as 2027 this isn't the first time that SpaceX or another company has floated the possibility of using using Starship to launch customer satellites but Sky perfect jat appears to have become the first customer to sign a firm contract to do such in 2022 an executive of mobile friendly internet constellation startup act space mobile said that it had secured two launch contracts from SpaceX for its first operational Bluebird sets but had only firmly selected Falcon 9 for one in 2019 SpaceX press and coo Gwenn Shotwell suggested that Starship could be used to Launch turkey's second domestically built com satellite although her off-hand mention has yet to translate to an official agreement in 2021 SpaceX bid Starship to launch NASA's tiny Tropics weather satellite constellation amounting to just 56 kg for a price somewhere between 9 and $20 million after proving its reliability this massive spacecraft will begin carrying out crude missions Polaris program the third mission organized by commercial astronaut Jared isman will utilize Starship as the spacecraft for space exploration and when it comes to lunar exploration we certainly can't Overlook NASA's emus 3 mission featuring a variant of the Starship hls set to land humans on the lunar surface in 2027 the next goal far beyond landing on the moon is going to be the Journey to Mars until now both the public and those involved in space travel have envisioned this as the exploration of a few astronauts on a cramped spacecraft however for Starship it'll enable Explorations akin to those familiar in space imaginations although SpaceX currently has no commercial contracts for Mars missions the successful executions of lunar missions by Starship will undoubtedly pave the way for Mars Starship flights carrying the first humans to Mars are optimally planned for the Mars launch window after the launch of the first two or more uncrewed Starship Vehicles therefore on human arrival on Mars there will already be two cargo Starships on the surface the second wave of missions can include two Starships carrying crew plus additional uncrewed cargo ships the human Starships will have an order of 1100 cubic met of forward space most of which will be pressurized for human habitation 2830 and an 800 cubic met lox take and a 600 cubic met methane tank with a stainless steel primary structure the locks and methane tanks could later become pressurized living space on the surface to Mars we recommend that these first crude Starships each have about 10 to 20 people on board with an additional 100 plus metric tons available cargo mass per Starship cargo carried on these flights will necessarily include additional equipment required for human health and productivity during the transit to Mars and on the Martian surface these vehicles will also carry fully operational hardware needed to support the human Mars base likely to include equipment for power production water extraction pre-prepped landing pads radiation shielding dust control equipment and outside shelters for humans and Equipment humans will likely live on Starship for the first few years on Mars until additional habitats are built so the radiation risk has to be assessed accordingly an equipment plan to support this initial infrastructure the first wave of uncrewed Starships can also be relocated and or repurposed as needed to support the people on the surface these vehicles will be valuable assets for storage and habitation and as a source of refined metal and components that's all for today's episode thank you so much for watching and see you next time