SpaceX has shared photos of the Super Heavy booster being transported to the launchpad ahead of the Starship’s fifth test flight.
Space X has shared photos of the Super Heavy booster being transported to the launchpad at its facility in Boca Chica, Texas, ahead of the Starship ’s fifth test flight, which is expected to take place in the first half of August.— Space X July 9, 2024
Recommended Videos Packing 17 million pounds of thrust at launch, the 120-meter-tall Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever to fly. That’s double that of NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System rocket, which has flown once to date, and more than twice that of the legendary Saturn V rocket, which powered astronauts toward the moon as part of the Apollo missions five decades ago.
The Starship first launched in 2023 in a test flight that lasted only a matter of minutes before an anomaly forced SpaceX ground controllers to destroy the rocket in midair. The second flight lasted a little longer before suffering a similar fate, though that time the rocket managed to achieve stage separation.
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