SpaceX is making its second attempt today to launch its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Thursday's launch window opens at 8:28 a.m. local time at the company's flight test facility in Boca Chica, Texas.as a fully reusable transportation system that is made to carry cargo and crew to Earth orbit. It is designed to help humans return to the moon and go to Mars and beyond.
Starship consists of a 230-foot-tall Starship"Super Heavy" first stage, which is powered by 33 methane-burning Raptor engines, and a bullet-shaped, a 160-foot-tall Starship second stage that is equipped with six Raptors of its own, as well as steerable fins at the nose and tail to control the ship during atmospheric re-entry from space. The two stages together can lift 100 tons to low-Earth orbit.
Instead, the first stage is expected to fly itself to a"hard" landing in the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles or so from Boca Chica, where it will simply sink. The Starship is supposed to crash back to a destructive splashdown about 150 miles north of Hawaii after a ballistic flight nearly all the way around the planet.
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