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SpaceX's Starship is the largest rocket in the world.
It is still being tested.
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Space travel is facing a revolution: SpaceX's “Starship” is intended to transport people and cargo to Mars.
But the schedule is wobbly.
Boca Chica - It's been a while since SpaceX's giant "Starship" took off for the last time.
But it seems as if the next attempt to launch the 121-meter-high colossus is imminent.
This can be seen from the fact that if you look to the south of Texas you can see the third “Starship”.
It is fully assembled in SpaceX's “Starbase” and is waiting for tests to take place before the third launch attempt.
SpaceX built the “Starbase” near the town of Boca Chica. It is used for the production, assembly and testing of rocket parts, and the launches are also carried out there.
The imminent launch date can also be seen in the statements made by SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
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However, SpaceX's launch license is still pending as the FAA is still investigating the consequences of the last rocket launch, which ended in an unexpected explosion in November 2023.
SpaceX wants to test another “Starship” in the coming weeks
However, it should be noted that the dates given by Musk are not always reliable.
Last year, SpaceX's founder predicted that the third test flight could take place before Christmas.
In January, a SpaceX employee said she expected the FAA license in February.
The “Starship” is currently the largest and most powerful rocket.
It launched test flights in April and November 2023, both of which ended in explosions.
It is planned that the “Starship” will take the next NASA astronauts to the moon as a “Human Landing System” in the next few years.
In an even more distant future, the giant rocket will carry people and cargo to Mars, helping to make humanity a “multiplanetary species.”
This vision was one of the reasons why Elon Musk founded SpaceX.
SpaceX has turned space travel on its head in recent years
In recent years, SpaceX has revolutionized space travel.
Where there was practically only government space travel, SpaceX pushed forward commercial space travel.
Where rockets were discarded after a single use, SpaceX has developed reusable rockets.
The boosters of the “Falcon 9” rocket are now recycled several times, which has significantly reduced the cost of rocket launches.
Today, the US space organization Nasa relies on SpaceX to transport its astronauts, and important scientific missions are also carried into space by Musk's rockets.
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“Starship” – the largest rocket in the world
The rocket, which is called “Starship”, is made up of two components.
The lower component, which acts as the first stage, is called “Super Heavy”.
It is a rocket booster equipped with 33 engines.
It is planned that the “Super Heavy” will return to Earth after launch and be used again in the future.
However, this was not planned for the test flights carried out so far.
The upper stage of the “Starship”, also called “Starship”, represents the second part of the rocket. It is a spacecraft designed to fly to the moon or Mars, land there and later launch again.
With a height of 121 meters, it is the largest rocket in the world.
For comparison: the moon rocket “Saturn V” measured 110 meters, NASA’s “Space Launch System” reached a height of just 98 meters.
The “Starship” is supposed to be the current highlight of this development.
However, the development of the large rocket is currently being watched critically because it is behind schedule and thus appears to be delaying the USA's next moon landing.
The date for the prestigious mission was recently pushed back by a year, and there are still many things to test and refine before people are allowed into the vehicle for the first time.
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