'One hell of a plasma beam!' Elon Musk said of the water-cooled steel plate test.
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SpaceX blasts a water-cooled steel plate with a Raptor engine in this still from a video that the company posted on Twitter on May 19, 2023. The plate technology is being developed to strengthen the ground beneath SpaceX's Starship orbital launch mount in South Texas.that SpaceX was already working on a way to prevent or minimize such damage —"a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.
Such efforts had begun three months prior, the billionaire entrepreneur said. The plate system wasn't ready in time for the April 20 launch, but SpaceX went ahead with it anyway, assuming that the concrete beneath Starship would survive a single liftoff. That turned out not to be the case, as we saw on April 20.
The steel-plate work has continued apace since then. Indeed, the company recently tested a prototype plate against the power of a single Raptor. a 20-second video of the test on Friday . When the steam clears at the end of the clip, the plate appears to still be in one piece — no mean feat, considering what it was up against.One hell of a plasma beam! https://t.co/y8uOTeFlsD
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