SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Reveals Starship Taking Aim At Florida Launch With 2 Towers And 'Far Better' Alloy Than Stainless Steel 301
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Reveals Starship Taking Aim At Florida Launch With 2 Towers And 'Far Better' Alloy Than Stainless Steel 301
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the company is contemplating launching its Starship rocket, aimed at returning humans to the Moon, from Florida.
SpaceX首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克透露，該公司正在考慮從佛羅里達發射旨在將人類送回月球的星際飛船火箭。
What Happened: All development and manufacturing of the Starship currently takes place at Starbase in Texas. All three of the Starship's past test flights launched from the commercial spaceport located in Cameron County near the Gulf of Mexico.
發生了什麼：星際飛船的所有開發和製造目前都在德克薩斯州的Starbase進行。星際飛船過去的三次試飛都是從位於墨西哥灣附近的卡梅倫縣的商業太空港發射的。
However, Musk took to social media and said the company aims to build two Starship towers at Cape Canaveral in Florida, hinting at plans to launch Starships from the state. While one of the two towers is expected to be at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, the location for the second is still under consideration, the CEO said.
但是，馬斯克在社交媒體上表示，該公司的目標是在佛羅里達州的卡納維拉爾角建造兩座星際飛船塔，暗示計劃從該州發射星際飛船。首席執行官表示，雖然兩座塔樓中的一座預計將位於肯尼迪航天中心39A號發射綜合體，但第二座塔樓的位置仍在考慮中。
"We're aiming to build two towers at the Cape for Starship, one at 39A and another tbd (we don't have final approval yet)," Musk wrote.
馬斯克寫道：“我們的目標是在星際飛船角建造兩座塔樓，一座位於39A，另一座待定（我們還沒有最終批准）。”
We're aiming to build two towers at the Cape for Staeship, one at 39A and another tbd (we don't have final approval yet)
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2024
我們的目標是在 Cape for Staeship 建造兩座塔樓，一座位於 39A，另一座待定（我們還沒有獲得最終批准）
— 埃隆·馬斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024 年 5 月 20 日
Musk also added that the team at SpaceX has developed a new metal alloy "far better" than stainless steel 301 for the Starship.
馬斯克還補充說，SpaceX的團隊已經爲星際飛船開發了一種比不鏽鋼301 “好得多” 的新金屬合金。
The SpaceX Advanced Materials team has since developed a new metal alloy far better than 301
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2024
此後，SpaceX 先進材料團隊開發了一種遠優於 301 的新金屬合金
— 埃隆·馬斯克 (@elonmusk) 2024 年 5 月 20 日
Why It Matters: Earlier this week, Musk said that SpaceX would launch its Starship rocket again in about two weeks, pegging the next launch for early June. For the next flight, Starship's goal is to re-enter Earth's atmosphere with all systems functioning despite the extreme heat, he added.
爲何重要：本週早些時候，馬斯克表示，SpaceX將在大約兩週後再次發射其星際飛船火箭，並將下一次發射定於6月初。他補充說，在下一次飛行中，星際飛船的目標是重新進入地球大氣層，儘管極端高溫，但所有系統仍能運行。
Starship is touted as the world's most powerful launch vehicle with its 121-meter tall frame weighing approximately 5,000 tonnes.
星際飛船被吹捧爲世界上最強大的運載火箭，其高達121米，重約5,000噸。
During Starship's previous flight test on March 14, the spacecraft lost contact and broke down while re-entering the planet's atmosphere instead of splashing down as planned in the Indian Ocean. The entirety of the last flight lasted about an hour. SpaceX launched the Starship twice last year — the first time in April and then in November.
在3月14日星際飛船的上一次飛行測試中，該航天器在重新進入地球大氣層時失去聯繫併發生故障，而不是按計劃在印度洋墜落。最後一次飛行持續了大約一個小時。SpaceX去年兩次發射了星際飛船——第一次是在4月，然後在11月。
NASA is currently relying on the success of Starship to land humans back on the moon. The last crewed lunar mission occurred in 1972 with Apollo 17. Since then, no crew has traveled beyond low-Earth orbit.
美國宇航局目前依靠星際飛船的成功使人類重返月球。最後一次載人登月任務發生在1972年的阿波羅17號。從那以後，沒有機組人員飛越過低地軌道。
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