Elon Musk's SpaceX set to fly biggest rocket ever
Elon Musk is hoping to completely upend the rocket business with Starship.
This mammoth booster, called simply Super Heavy, was fired while clamped to its launch mount in February. However, the engines on that occasion were throttled back to half their capability. At that point, the two halves of the rocket will separate, and the top section, the ship, will push on with its own engines for a further six minutes and 23 seconds.
The ship is aiming to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after almost a full revolution of the Earth, coming down in the Pacific just north of the Hawaiian islands. It's been given protective tiling to cope with the immense heating it will experience during the descent. A bellyflop into the ocean is timed to occur 90 minutes after lift-off.
It is giving SpaceX almost $3bn to develop a variant of Starship that is planned to land astronauts on the Moon.
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