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Elon Musk’s company assembled the largest rocket in history with the Mechazilla and showed how it will be used
Yesterday we published photos and a video that showed the process of assembling the Starship rocket with both stages. As a result, SpaceX was able to successfully install a Starship 20 prototype on a Super Heavy Booster 4 launch vehicle using a 140-meter Starship maintenance tower with robotic arms called Mehazilla. This turret will be used to “catch” the Super Heavy launch vehicle and Starship spacecraft on landing.
In August last year, SpaceX assembled a full-fledged prototype of the Starship rocket for the first time, after which it was dismantled for further testing. But if at that time the rocket was assembled simply to check that Starship and Super Heavy connected well with each other, then this time the rocket was assembled before the first orbital launch. It was supposed to take place before the end of last year, but the local regulator did not issue the appropriate permission to SpaceX. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) now has until February 28 to issue a permit.
The rocket, consisting of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft, is designed to deliver cargo and people to the Moon and Mars. It will be able to deliver cargo weighing up to 150 tons to low Earth orbit with the return of both stages to Earth, as well as the possibility of docking and refueling in orbit.
In addition, they showed a video with tests of the Raptor 2 engine:
A spectacular computer video was also published showing the use of the rocket.
Components
A “completely silent” 1300W power supply. Cooler Master showed two new products, but only the youngest received a passive CO
Cooler Master brought power supplies to Computex that they claim are absolutely silent.
The younger model with a power of 750 W is really silent, because it simply does not have a fan. By the way, this is the company’s most powerful power supply with passive cooling.
There is also a 1300W PSU. It has a fan, but Cooler Master also calls it completely silent.
The secret to successfully cooling such powerful PSUs without too much noise lies in the use of an evaporation chamber. There are no other details yet, as well as no pricing data.
NASA’s SLS super-heavy booster is already over budget by $6 billion and six years behind schedule, according to a recent report.
A recent report generated by the NASA Inspector General’s review indicates that NASA’s spending on the Artemis program will reach $93 billion by 2025, including the $23.8 billion already spent on SLS through 2022.
Despite a successful first run earlier this year, the Inspector notes that the project involves additional costs and a further shift in the schedule. Moreover, if the existing problems are not resolved in time, this may jeopardize the entire mission of Artemis.
As for delays, out of the six years mentioned, five years of delay, and at the same time an additional almost $ 2 billion, fell on Northrop Grumman accelerators. The bottom line is that the SLS project initially involved the partial use of old equipment from the days of the Space Shuttle program. Of course, with the necessary upgrades. Northrop Grumman boosters were one such element.
The inspector blames the situation on the cost-plus pricing method and recommends switching to fixed prices. In general, NASA agreed with all eight of the inspector’s recommendations.
Headphones
Exynos platforms will appear in a new type of device. Samsung to create SoC for mixed reality headsets
Samsung is going after Apple to release its mixed reality headset. The device will be released either at the end of this year or early next. There are no details about it yet, but it is reported that Samsung is also going to release its own Exynos single-chip systems for headsets.
Considering that these are only plans for now, the upcoming Samsung headset will apparently either rely on some foreign platforms or on existing Exynos SoCs.
However, new platforms for mixed reality headsets may not be entirely new. It is reported that Samsung has not yet decided whether it will develop these SoCs from scratch or simply adapt existing solutions.
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