On August 6, Elon Musk’s SpaceX stacked a prototype space rocket on a super-heavy booster rocket for the first time, allowing the world to see the scale of a joint aircraft nearly 400 feet high. SpaceX is developing Starship for launching cargo and people on missions to the moon and Mars. Musk’s goal is to make Starship completely reusable. In May of this year, the company announced plans for its first orbital flight, but critics believe that SpaceX is not ready to achieve its goals on Mars.
On August 6, the US company SpaceX briefly stacked the largest rocket in history. The two parts of the rocket, called the upper stage of the interstellar spacecraft and the booster called the super heavy, are connected at Starbase’s research and development facility in Boca. .Texas. Connecting these two parts requires a huge crane. They stayed where they were for an hour, and then they separated again. The SpaceX rocket is about 120 m (400 feet) high, dwarfing any previous launch system. When it finally takes off, it will generate approximately twice the thrust of the vehicle that sent humans to the moon.
The main engine of the famous Apollo Saturn V rocket launched approximately 35 billion Newtons (nearly 8 million pounds of force) from the platform. SpaceX’s new super-heavy thruster should be able to reach about 70 meganewtons. SpaceX still has weeks or months of testing time to prepare for the first flight. This will enable the thruster to launch the spacecraft into space, orbit the earth, and eventually carry out a disposal “landing” in the waters near the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Elon Musk promised that he will try to land a manned spacecraft on Mars before 2024. This is very ambitious, and critics always remind him. SpaceX stacked the Starship spacecraft on top of its super-heavy propeller, which is equipped with 29 complete Raptor rocket engine components, and the Starship spacecraft on the top has six.
Together with the orbital launch pad on which it is located, the whole thing is 475 feet high, which is higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. The spacecraft represents a fully reusable transportation system designed to transport crew and cargo to orbits on Earth, the Moon, Mars and other places. The interstellar spacecraft will become the most powerful launch vehicle in the history of the world, capable of sending more than 100 metric tons into the earth’s orbit. Starship is designed to carry satellites farther than SpaceX’s current Falcon launch vehicle, and has a lower marginal cost per launch. Starship’s payload bay is larger than any fairing currently in operation or under development, creating possibilities for new missions, including a larger space telescope than James Webb.
