The booster will end up in the Gulf of Mexico while Starship will splash down near Kauai in the Pacific.
#Spacex will hopefully launch starship flight full
The first launch will only be in space for a bit less than one full orbit. We don't know the exact timeline of SpaceX but it's possible that the FAA approval is the critical path. The FAA needs to finish an environmental review which requires a 30 day period for comments from the public. We can also expect more tests of the upper stage (which just left the production site yesterday), and potentially more tests of the booster. Some heat shield tiles (black) are still missing and there are probably other outstanding tasks.
About an hour later Starship was disconnected again (it's still being lowered at the time of this post). This was not being stacked for a launch yet, it was only a test of the procedure. SpaceX has made rapid progress towards a first launch in recent weeks, leading to the first full stack today. If successful it could cut launch costs so radically that space gets accessible to millions. It is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable as first rocket ever: Land, stack, refuel, launch again, like an aircraft. N1 had the largest diameter.īut its size is not the revolutionary part. The largest rocket ever built by mass, thrust, height, and payload capacity. Twice the mass and over twice the thrust of Saturn V.
120 meters tall, about 5000 tonnes when fully fueled. A couple of too-small-to-see cars near the bottom for scale, I also added a Saturn V and the Statue of Liberty for comparison. This is a fully stacked Starship (top) and Super Heavy (bottom).
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