SpaceX scrubbed plans for its first test launch of its gargantuan methane-powered Super Heavy/Starship rocket, pausing the countdown for at least 48 hours after issues arose.
SpaceX scrubbed plans for its first test launch of its gargantuan methane-powered Super Heavy/Starship rocket Monday at the company's sprawling test facility at Boca Chica on the Texas Gulf Coast, pausing the countdown for at least 48 hours after issues arose.on Friday, SpaceX immediately tweeted that it was"targeting Monday, April 17, for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas.
The Super Heavy/Starship, known collectively simply as"Starship," is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built, standing 394 feet high and measuring 29.5 feet wide. It is capable of generating a staggering 16.7 million pounds of thrust at liftoff from its 33 SpaceX-designed Raptor engines, twice the power of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket.
Photo provided by SpaceX shows the company's Starship rocket at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.The Super Heavy first stage alone stands 23 stories tall, while the Starship upper stage, designed to carry cargo, passengers or both, towers another 164 feet and is equipped with six Raptor engines. The test flight, when it happens, it will mark a major milestone for SpaceX — which views the Starship as the key to the company's future — and for NASA, which is paying SpaceX billions to develop a variant of the Starship to carry
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