• Check out Elon Musk's Starship Super Heavy launch today; All details here

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    Check out Elon Musk's Starship Super Heavy launch today; All details here

    The Starship Super Heavy is a reusable rocket ship designed to enable humans to become an interplanetary species...


    Digital Desk: On Monday, SpaceX will launch the Starship Super Heavy spaceship for the first time. The world's most powerful rocket will take out on its inaugural orbital flight beyond Earth's orbit.


    The Starship Super Heavy is the largest and most powerful rocket ever created, with grandiose aspirations of transporting people to the moon and Mars. The orbital launch will be automated, with no astronauts on board to direct the vehicles as they lift off and return to a different location.


    The Federal Aviation Administration approved Elon Musk's firm on Friday. It will be the first launch with both sections of the Starship together. Early versions of the sci-fi-looking upper stage flew many miles into the stratosphere a few years ago, crashing four times before landing upright in 2021.


    Starship Super Heavy Launch, Timing Details Here: 


    The Starship Super Heavy is scheduled to launch on Monday between 5-7 p.m. SpaceX will not attempt any rocket or spaceship landings during this demonstration. As mentioned everything is going to end up in the water.


    "I can't promise it will reach orbit, but I can promise it will be exciting." It will not be dull. "I think it has, I don't know, a 50% chance of reaching orbit," Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference last month.


    The stainless steel Starship has 33 primary engines with a total thrust of 16.7 million pounds. During a launch pad test in January, all but two of the methane-fueled first-stage engines ignited – good enough to reach orbit, according to Musk.


    Live Streaming Details Here:


    The launch and lift-off mission is being streamed live by SpaceX. You can see it here.



    About Starship Super Heavy: 


    On a mission to Mars, the Starship Super Heavy could lift 250 tonnes and carry 100 passengers. The six-engine spaceship accounts 164 feet (50 metres) in its height.


    The Starship Super Heavy is a fully reusable rocket ship designed on the same premise as the Falcon-9 rockets, to allow mankind to become an interplanetary species.


    Starship Super Heavy is propelled by a swarm of Raptor engines that run on liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX). A total of 33 Raptor engines power the first-stage booster, which generates 1,67,33,085 pounds of thrust to lift 150 tonnes of cargo for a journey beyond the planet.


    On a mission to Mars, the Starship Super Heavy could lift 250 tonnes and carry 100 passengers. The six-engine spaceship accounts 164 feet (50 metres) in its height.


    The Starship Super Heavy is a fully reusable rocket ship designed on the same premise as the Falcon-9 rockets, to allow mankind to become an interplanetary species.


    Starship Super Heavy is propelled by a swarm of Raptor engines that run on liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX). A total of 33 Raptor engines power the first-stage booster, which generates 1,67,33,085 pounds of thrust to lift 150 tonnes of cargo for a journey beyond the planet.


    The test flight will last around two hours and will not complete an orbit around the Earth. The Starship will take off from an isolated location near Boca Chica Beach on Texas's southernmost coast.




    If the Starship is three minutes after launch, the booster will be ordered to separate and fall into the Gulf of Mexico. The spaceship would proceed eastward, crossing the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans before coming to rest near Hawaii.


    While Starship is meant to be reusable, nothing from the test flight will be salvaged. The Texas launch pad is outfitted with massive robotic arms are known as chopsticks that will eventually capture a returning booster when it lands.





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