{"id":1204077,"date":"2023-11-17T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204077"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:48:43","slug":"heres-why-spacex-really-needed-to-change-out-that-part-on-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204077","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why SpaceX really needed to change out that part on Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/f9sch-interstage-from-right-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of a Falcon 9 booster interstage\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/f9sch-interstage-from-right.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"3554\" data-width=\"5332\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Falcon 9 interstage from the right. Note grid fins. (credit: Lee Hutchinson)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket did not launch on Friday morning from South Texas as intended because the company <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/11\/elon-musk-confirms-a-one-day-delay-for-spacexs-starship-test-flight\/\">had to replace the actuator<\/a> on a grid fin. The rocket is now being prepared for a launch during a tight window on Saturday morning, from 7 to 7:20 am local time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an explanation of why grid fins are so important to the rocket&#8217;s flight\u2014or, more precisely, its landing.<\/p>\n<h2>A little Falcon 9 history<\/h2>\n<p>The better part of a decade ago, SpaceX maneuvered an autonomous drone ship into the Atlantic Ocean for the first time with the intent of catching a falling rocket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984733#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984733&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s why SpaceX really needed to change out that part on Starship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Falcon 9 interstage from the right. Note grid fins. (credit: Lee Hutchinson) SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket did not launch on Friday morning from South Texas as intended because the company had to replace the actuator on a grid fin. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1204077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}