{"id":16726,"date":"2024-11-18T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16726"},"modified":"2024-11-18T20:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:27:45","slug":"spacex-starships-sonic-boom-creates-risk-of-structural-damage-test-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16726","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starship\u2019s Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

SpaceX\u2019s new Starship rocket far exceeds the projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data<\/a> suggests.<\/p>\n

The measurements<\/a> \u2014 of the actual sound and air pressure generated by the rocket during its fifth test launch last month<\/a> \u2014 are the most comprehensive publicly released to date for Elon Musk\u2019s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever constructed.<\/p>\n

Starship, as tall as a 30-story building, is so large that it generates 10 times as much noise as the Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX now uses to get cargo and astronauts to orbit, the new data shows. SpaceX plans another test this week.<\/p>\n

For residents of South Padre Island and Port Isabel, which are about six miles from SpaceX\u2019s launch site in South Texas, the noise during the October test flight was the equivalent of standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 plane during its takeoff, said Kent L. Gee, an independent acoustics engineer who conducted the monitoring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Dr. Gee is the chairman of the physics and astronomy department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, as well as a researcher helping NASA study ways to reduce noise impacts generated by supersonic planes. The test results were published on Friday<\/a> in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration and SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

When supersonic Concorde jets were still in service, the United States banned them from flying over domestic land \u201cso their resulting sonic booms won\u2019t startle the public below or concern them about potential property damage,\u201d according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n

We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n

Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into<\/a>\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0for all of The Times.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.<\/p>\n

Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff.SpaceX\u2019s new Starship rocket far exceeds the projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data suggests.The measurements \u2014 of the actual sound and air pressure generated by the rocket during its fifth test launch last month \u2014 are the most comprehensive publicly released to date for Elon Musk\u2019s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever constructed.Starship, as tall as a 30-story building, is so large that it generates 10 times as much noise as the Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX now uses to get cargo and astronauts to orbit, the new data shows. SpaceX plans another test this week.For residents of South Padre Island and Port Isabel, which are about six miles from SpaceX\u2019s launch site in South Texas, the noise during the October test flight was the equivalent of standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 plane during its takeoff, said Kent L. Gee, an independent acoustics engineer who conducted the monitoring.Dr. Gee is the chairman of the physics and astronomy department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, as well as a researcher helping NASA study ways to reduce noise impacts generated by supersonic planes. The test results were published on Friday in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.The Federal Aviation Administration and SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.When supersonic Concorde jets were still in service, the United States banned them from flying over domestic land \u201cso their resulting sonic booms won\u2019t startle the public below or concern them about potential property damage,\u201d according to NASA.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16728,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16729,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726\/revisions\/16729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}