SpaceX boss Elon Musk hopes Starship will be used to take humans to Mars in future, while NASA has already signed up to use it to take humans back to the moon via its Artemis programme by 2025.
SpaceX has launched its Starship rocket system, the biggest and most powerful ever made, for the first time in a landmark test., it blasted off from Boca Chica in southern Texas as thousands of spectators watched on nearby.
Starship is made up of two stages - a Super Heavy booster that generates the needed power to reach orbit, and the spacecraft tipped to one day take humans back to the moon and eventually Mars. Combined, the craft and booster - which has 33 rocket engines - have a record-setting height of 120m., generating enough power to reach orbit.Upon reaching orbit on Thursday, Starship will be deployed while the booster - on this occasion a prototype called Booster 7 - is discarded into the Gulf of Mexico.
Starship will complete a full orbit of the Earth and splash down into the Pacific after re-entering the atmosphere.is best known for transporting its Starlink satellites, there is no cargo aboard Starship this time.The first launch attempt was postponed due to a frozen valve
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