Elon Musk's SpaceX company will launch a superheavy Starship rocket
The giant Starship rocket system, which was built by SpaceX for manned missions to the Moon and Mars, is being prepared for the first launch, Reuters reports.
The height of the rocket is almost 120 meters, and its thrust is almost twice as high as any analogues in history. Starship launches from Boca Chica in South Texas. The first orbital flight of the rocket to an altitude of almost 300 kilometers should last about 90 minutes, after which it will land in the Pacific Ocean, 225 kilometers off the coast of the island of Oahu (Hawaii).
"This is the first launch of a very complex giant rocket, so it may not launch. We will be very careful, and if we see something that bothers us, we will postpone the launch," commented SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter. He believes that this vehicle can open the era of interplanetary travel for ordinary people, will allow satellites to be launched into orbit several times a day, just as a jet airliner can cross the Atlantic.
On April 14, the missile was tested by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which lasted more than 500 days. It was found that the device meets all the requirements of safety, ecology, politics, payload, integration into the airspace.
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