Until now, Elon Mask only had an exploratory view of the missile that will travel to the Moon and Mars!

The Elon Mask telescope has made several new and rare milestones with a vision of how his company, SpaceX, has built a spaceship to reach Mars.

On September 17th, Elon Mask announced that SpaceX would offer a flying experience to Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon with Big Falcon Rocket or BFR.

The event featured new launch offers and some images of work in progress at the SpaceX shipbuilding tent at the Port of Los Angeles.

This was the first new detail announced since April on SpaceX rocket construction, when the masked images were released, showing that SpaceX was building rockets using a 40-foot, 30-foot cylindrical tool. , Is the main tool of the interplanetary vessel "BFR".

According to industry experts, recently released images reveal information about how SpaceX builds BBF and how fast the project is.

Indeed, it is unusual for companies and even government agencies developing missiles to reveal the devices they develop, but what Mask is trying to do is rally the public around him, said Marco Caceres, space analyst at Teal Group. He breathes and lives with this company, so when he has certain techniques, he is very excited for her, just wants to show him and of course, be as accurate as possible.

The BER was designed to be a 39-stage launch system consisting of two parts: a 180-foot space ship from the head of the tail and a rocket propelled by a 230-foot rocket that anchored the ship in orbit. Mask said the spacecraft was the hardest part of the system is under construction, so it's SpaceX that initially designed it.

Mask's vision is to launch the orbiter's spacecraft and refuel it while it is circulating around the Earth, then launching its engines, flying in space and airborne. land on Mars, then launch the rocket of the planet and return to Earth. It is designed to be reused 100%.

The system should be able to do this several times. According to Mask, SpaceX built in 2016 a system based primarily on advanced carbon fiber, which can be five times stronger than steel.

One of the new photos that Mask took part in on the September 17 broadcast showed a supported and threaded tube inside the cylindrical tool that was unveiled for the first time in March and is called spindle.

Robots laid layers on a layer of ribbon from the carbon fiber filaments around the spindle to form a body part of a width of 30 feet into the spacecraft.

The carbon fibers are impregnated with epoxy glue, then heated to dry and harden.

The photo below, which was unveiled by Mask on September 17, shows a portion of the barrel dried and released from the spindle, as well as the round dome on the left which is also part of a carbon fiber fuel tank.

Steve Nutt, professor of chemistry, aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California, told Business Insider that he thought the SpaceX engineers were spinning the spindle with a non-woven portion of the tape . The non-woven is the "highest strength and strength" because it does not intertwine easily and does not rinse which can weaken the structure, and increases the amount of carbon fiber superpower of the # 39; epoxy.

"What they do is very smart," he said. Carbon fiber must shrink during heating and processing. Knott therefore thinks that SpaceX may be using very large, air-absorbing plastic containers to compress the layers of the tape, but he is not sure how SpaceX is heating the parts. He added that the structures are much larger than in the furnace, so they can use "thermal blankets". At the end of his speech, he stated that he was paying these techniques in the face of NASA!

"The new images highlight a project of mythical proportions, and this is more than anything else for engineering," said Caceres, who has studied the aviation industry for decades, claiming: "The new images highlight a project of epic proportions, "Nothing I've ever seen in this size, even the New Glen, the heavy reusable heavy truck built by global billionaire Jeff Bezos in his company Blue Arugen, can not be compared. "

"The disclosure of these images is forcing the public and investors to take Mask seriously," Caceres said.

Caceres previously estimated that the BFR development program could cost around $ 5 billion. Mask expressed the same appreciation when he announced Maizawa's role in the Spice X tourist satellite mission.

Caceres said that he was looking for investors because he was not Jeff Bezos, who could handle everything himself. He also said: Mask is not too much, he is looking for investors for build and advertise.

If you see how much equipment he has, people will say it's a serious project. And how not to even have the task of the 2023 moon aboard the BFR – Mizawa Project – which he christened "Hastaj Dear Moon".

Will succeed, and that would send a clear message to NASA about the possibilities of SpaceX.

"That does not seem like a trick, it's a demonstration," Caceres said. "SpaceX has received multi-billion dollar funding from NASA as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Crew program, which aims to create a launch system with private companies astronauts at the International Space Station.

It is therefore logical that Mask is trying to attract the attention of NASA and devote money to develop the WCR. "

NASA is currently building a giant launcher called Space Launch System, which can cost more than $ 20 billion to develop and pay about $ 1 billion per launch.

At the same time, the company's WCR can cost tens of millions of dollars to refuel and launch once the ship is operational.

"In a way, he pushes his technology against NASA and tells them you're crazy about building that rocket," Caceres said of Mask and SLS.

Elon Musk is an attractive character and a skilled man who understands this. NASA has been trying for years to spark excitement in space exploration and rejuvenate Apollo, but it failed, but Mask defeated NASA and achieved that goal.

"What Musk is building looks like a sci-fi film," said Caceres, "he wants to attract the public interest and this craze can attract investors."

If SpaceX does not get funding from NASA to develop BFR, the company can leverage space tourism and contract with governments and commercial interests to launch merchandise and satellites. The benefits of MySpace X are expected to fund the ambitious program launched by Starlink, a network of 12,000 satellites.

"When I was in trade shows 10 years ago, I interviewed Boeing and others on SpaceX, they rolled their eyes and said they would not last. not, "says Caceres. "People can not say that Mask does it all, SpaceX has long been the biggest player in the industry."

The original article was published in Business Insider.

• Translated by Esra Ragab Abbas
• Verification: Mona Hamdi
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