{"id":699612,"date":"2021-08-20T07:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699612"},"modified":"2021-08-20T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:25:49","slug":"musk-hopes-mechazilla-will-catch-and-assemble-the-starship-and-super-heavy-boosters-for-rapid-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699612","title":{"rendered":"Musk hopes &quot;Mechazilla&quot; will catch and assemble the Starship and Super Heavy boosters for rapid reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2021, Elon Musk announced SpaceX&#8217;s latest plan to increase the number of flights they can mount by drastically reducing turnaround time. The key to this was a new launch tower that would &#8220;catch&#8221; first stage boosters after they return to Earth. This would forego the need to install landing legs on future Super Heavy boosters and potentially future Starship returning to Earth.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-musk-mechazilla-starship-super-heavy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Musk hopes &#8220;Mechazilla&#8221; will catch and assemble the Starship and Super Heavy boosters for rapid reuse<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January of 2021, Elon Musk announced SpaceX&#8217;s latest plan to increase the number of flights they can mount by drastically reducing turnaround time. The key to this was a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}