The world’s most powerful rocket is back on the launchpad at the SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, and ready for another daring test flight.
SpaceX is set to launch the latest test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed, which could one day be used to carry humans to the moon and Mars. Liftoff of the Super Heavy rocket booster, topped with the uncrewed Starship spacecraft, is expected to occur during a 30-minute launch window that opens at 8 a.m. ET from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX says that has driven down its costs, allowing the company to undercut the rest of the rocket market. Starship, however, is a far more powerful and complex system. With 33 engines at its base, each more powerful than one of the nine used on the Falcon, the Super Heavy booster packs roughly 10 times the amount of thrust at liftoff.
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