跟进:星舰飞船首次被发射塔捕获,Ship 42 绕地球约14圈、飞行22个半小时后回到 Starbase

SpaceX 星舰第15次试飞的飞船 Ship 42 于11月14日在德克萨斯州 Starbase 被发射塔机械臂成功捕获,这是星舰飞船首次实现发射塔捕获。
Ship 42 于11月13日22时47分(世界时)从 Starbase 二号轨道发射台升空,入轨后释放了全部26颗星链 V3 卫星,随后在约275公里高的轨道上飞行约14圈。飞船在完成离轨点火、再入大气层与着陆点火后,于11月14日21时20分(世界时,美中时间15时20分、美西时间13时20分)回到发射塔被捕获,整趟任务历时22小时32分32秒。
同一次试飞的超重型助推器 Booster 22 未能完成塔捕:它在返回途中检出制导、导航与控制问题,改道溅落墨西哥湾,飞船与助推器同飞双回收因此未能在同一次任务中实现。
SpaceX 在捕获后发文称「Mechazilla 捕获星舰」,并向全体团队表示祝贺。发射塔的机械臂外号「筷子」,此前曾三次捕获返回的超重型助推器,捕获从轨道返回的飞船本体尚属首次。
关联:SpaceX 星舰第15次试飞升空:26颗星链V3卫星全部入轨,助推器放弃塔捕溅落墨西哥湾
(来源:SpaceX)
Follow-up: Starship Ship Caught by Launch Tower for the First Time as Ship 42 Returns to Starbase After About 14 Orbits in 22.5 Hours
Ship 42, the upper stage of SpaceX's Starship Flight 15, was successfully caught by the launch tower's mechanical arms at Starbase, Texas, on November 14, the first tower catch of a Starship ship.
Ship 42 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad 2 at Starbase at 22:47 UTC on November 13, deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and then flew about 14 orbits at an altitude of roughly 275 kilometres. After a deorbit burn, atmospheric reentry and a landing burn, it was caught at the tower at 21:20 UTC on November 14 (3:20 p.m. Central, 1:20 p.m. Pacific), ending a mission lasting 22 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds.
The flight's Super Heavy booster, Booster 22, did not complete its own catch: after detecting a guidance, navigation and control problem on its return, it diverted to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, so a same-flight recovery of both stages was not achieved on this mission.
SpaceX posted after the catch: "Mechazilla catches Starship! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on this incredible achievement!" The tower's arms, nicknamed the chopsticks, had previously caught returning Super Heavy boosters three times; catching a ship returning from orbit is a first.
(Source: SpaceX)
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图片来源:图:超重型助推器返回 Starbase 发射塔、作最后进近(资料图)。Steve Jurvetson 摄,CC BY 2.0,经 Wikimedia Commons。 / File photo: A Super Heavy booster on final approach to the Starbase launch tower. Photo by Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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