Big Falcon Rocket | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)


00:02:17 1 History
00:05:59 1.1 Unveiling
00:12:16 1.2 “New design approach”
00:14:51 1.3 Testing
00:15:59 1.3.1 Starship tests
00:17:28 1.3.2 Super Heavy tests
00:17:44 2 Nomenclature
00:19:55 3 Description
00:21:28 3.1 First stage: iSuper Heavy/i
00:22:19 3.2 Second stage and spaceship: iStarship/i
00:24:20 3.3 Launch vehicle specifications and performance
00:25:20 3.4 iStarship/i prototypes
00:28:00 4 Applications
00:29:36 4.1 Lunar flyby tour
00:30:06 4.2 Transport to Mars and Mars surface ship use
00:30:48 5 See also



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The Big Falcon Rocket (officially shortened to BFR) is a privately funded, fully reusable launch vehicle and spacecraft system in development by SpaceX. In November 2018 the second stage and ship was renamed by CEO Elon Musk to Starship, while the first stage was given the moniker "Super Heavy." The overall space vehicle architecture includes both launch vehicle and spacecraft, as well as ground infrastructure for rapid launch and relaunch, and propellant transfer in space. The payload capacity to Earth orbit of at least 100,000 kg (220,000 lb) makes BFR a super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The first orbital flight will occur no earlier than 2020, with a flight around the Moon slated for 2023.SpaceX has been developing the technologies needed for a super heavy-lift launch vehicle for many years, with the design characteristics and nomenclature undergoing several revisions over time. Before 2016, the SpaceX super heavy-lift vehicle concept was referred to as the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT). In 2016, Musk presented a specific design for a much larger 12-meter-diameter rocket called the ITS launch vehicle. In September 2017, a design was unveiled for the much smaller 9 m (30 ft)-diameter vehicle—something that SpaceX believed they might actually be able to successfully fund and build—and was given the code name BFR. A year later, the launch vehicle component parts were renamed to Starship (second stage and spaceship) and Super Heavy (first stage).
The launch vehicle design is dependent on the concurrent development work by SpaceX on the Raptor rocket engine, which is a cryogenic methalox-fueled engine that will be used for both stages of the BFR launch vehicle. Development on the Raptor began in 2012, leading to engine testing which began in 2016, flight testing after May 2019, and a full-up orbital flight test as early as 2020.The BFR system is intended to completely replace all of SpaceX's existing space hardware (the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles and the Dragon spacecraft), initially aiming at the Earth-orbit launch market, but explicitly adding substantial capability to support long-duration spaceflight in the cislunar and Mars transport flight environments.