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Spaceflight is expensive. Rockets typically cost $60 million or more to build and launch, and each spacecraft component is normally used just once. Most of that cost is for the rocket itself-the fuel typically accounts for less than 1 percent of the total price. Booster rockets, the first stage used to propel a rocket off the ground and to the edge of space, represent about 75 percent of the cost of a spacecraft.
Heat resulting from air friction normally destroys booster rockets when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere while traveling at speeds of thousands of kilometers per hour
Elon Musk, founder of the private U.S, aerospace company SpaceX, jokes that using each booster rocket only once is similar to throwing away a perfectly good jetliner after every flight.
To make spaceflight more affordable, SpaceX has been attempting to make several parts of rockets reusable.
Starting in 2011, the company began a series of test flights using new technologies to allow booster rockets to return safely to Earth. After lifting a payload such as a new satellite into space, each booster rocket flips over, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and fires its engines to decelerate so it doesn't burn up like a meteor. Air brakes deploy to slow the rocket even more while an onboard computer guides it to its landing site, which can be either a barge in the ocean or the launch pad where it lifted off. As the rocket nears its landing point, landing legs deploy to absorb some of the shock of the impact and keep the rocket stable upon touchdown.
Using these technologies, SpaceX has already successfully landed many booster rockets, both on land and at sea. In March 2017, the company took the next step by successfully launching a recovered booster rocket back into space. SpaceX is already testing ways to recover and reuse even more rocket components, including
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upper stage rockets, nose cones, and capsules.
SpaceX estimates that a recovered rocket would cost
As more parts of rockets
30 percent less to launch than
become reusable, the
a new one. If a new rocket
cost of spaceflight could
costs $61,200.000 to launch,
drop dramatically;
how much would a recow rocket cast to launch?
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1049075130141-01454
Spaceflight is expensive. Rockets typically cost $60 million or more to build and launch, and each spacecraft component is normally used just once. Most of that cost is for the rocket itself-the fuel typically accounts for less than 1 percent of the total price. Booster rockets, the first stage used to propel a rocket off the ground and to the edge of space, represent about 75 percent of the cost of a spacecraft.
Heat resulting from air friction normally destroys booster rockets when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere while traveling at speeds of thousands of kilometers per hour
Elon Musk, founder of the private U.S, aerospace company SpaceX, jokes that using each booster rocket only once is similar to throwing away a perfectly good jetliner after every flight.
To make spaceflight more affordable, SpaceX has been attempting to make several parts of rockets reusable.
Starting in 2011, the company began a series of test flights using new technologies to allow booster rockets to return safely to Earth. After lifting a payload such as a new satellite into space, each booster rocket flips over, re-enters Earth's atmosphere, and fires its engines to decelerate so it doesn't burn up like a meteor. Air brakes deploy to slow the rocket even more while an onboard computer guides it to its landing site, which can be either a barge in the ocean or the launch pad where it lifted off. As the rocket nears its landing point, landing legs deploy to absorb some of the shock of the impact and keep the rocket stable upon touchdown.
Using these technologies, SpaceX has already successfully landed many booster rockets, both on land and at sea. In March 2017, the company took the next step by successfully launching a recovered booster rocket back into space. SpaceX is already testing ways to recover and reuse even more rocket components, including
+ 8330542-10+8-101
Math Minute
upper stage rockets, nose cones, and capsules.
SpaceX estimates that a recovered rocket would cost
As more parts of rockets
30 percent less to launch than
become reusable, the
a new one. If a new rocket
cost of spaceflight could
costs $61,200.000 to launch,
drop dramatically;
how much would a recow rocket cast to launch?
000'0)8과도
1049075130141-01454
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This is an informational text discussing SpaceX's efforts to make spaceflight more affordable by reusing rocket components.