Spacex has brought the latest starship rocket to the Starbase Lanch Pad in Texas, USA. The company shared pictures related to the social media platform ‘X’ and described it as a milestone.
The vastness of the rocket can be gauged from the fact that it has two major elements. The first is- super heavy booster and the second starship is upper stage which is 165 feet long. This will be the third starship test flight of Spacex. The company hopes that the test flight will be flown in the next few weeks. According to Spacedotcom, although the US administration has not yet received test approval.
The report says that when the Spacex will get the license for the third flight, it is not known. The US FAA is investigating what happened in the second starship flight launched in December, which was exploded after 8 minutes.
The starship was first flown in April last year. At the time of launching, the rocket was shown trembling and within a few minutes he had exploded. It was then said that Masak has failed in his cause. But his company is not ready to back down and is testing one after the other.
What is starship rocket
Starship is a reusable rocket. It has two parts mainly. The first is- passenger carry section means in which passengers will remain, while the second is a super heavy rocket booster. Its length is 394 feet (120 meters) by combining starships and boosters. While the weight is 50 million kg. According to the information, the Starship rocket is capable of generating a thrust of 1.6 million pounds (70 MW). This is almost twice as much more than NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
