Space X always stunned the world with its jaw-dropping ideas. Following four tests, Space X is once again making news following the spaceship mega-rocket’s successful launch. The largest and most potent rocket will launch the moon lander and drop astronauts over the moon by 2026. 

About Starship

It is the tallest and most potent rocket ever launched. The starship is approximately 30 feet in diameter when assembled with the super-heavy rocket it is about 394 feet tall. Liquid oxygen and liquid methane power the rocket. 33 Raptor engines power its base which collectively provides 16.7 million pounds of thrust, roughly twice as much as NASA’s Space Flight System rocket. The 165-foot-tall starship itself has six Raptor engines.

Successful lunch and soft landing of heavy booster 

The super heavy booster was lifted from Space X’s launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas. This heavy booster returned to the surface after seven minutes of launch and got caught by the launch tower’s monstrous metal arms at the launch pad. 

Elated Elon Musk quoted it as “science fiction without the fiction part.”

Elon Musk’s Musk-owned SpaceX has marked a major milestone toward its goals of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system. It means that after the launch of the rocket in the sky, this booster will be capable of another launch. 

Moreover, Towering almost 400 feet, the empty Starship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. The starship traveled halfway around the Earth before returning into the atmosphere and then splashed down in the Indian Ocean as the successful completion of the test. In addition to this, the company has previously flown four spaceflight tests. Each of these has shown a step ahead of the previous one.

It was also noteworthy, at the time of its soft landing, approximately 4 million people were watching SpaceX’s live stream. 

Starship Entered itself in Highlights

As the launcher gradually lowered itself into the arms of the launch tower, the workers of the company started out a shout of delight, jumping and waving their arms into the air.

Dan Huot of SpaceX noted from close to the launch site, “What we just witnessed is magic, even in this day and age.” “I am shivering right now!”

From SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Kate Tice remarked, “People, this is a day for the engineering history books.”

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