Starship climbed some 24 miles before blowing up. And although it didn't reach its goal of space, it did surpass the point of maximum mechanical stress, an analyst noted.
about the flaming debris that fell out of the sky, space experts and observers cheered the liftoff of the world's most powerful rocket.
"This was all done on the first launch attempt of the most powerful rocket ever built," Epstein stressed. The ultimate goals of Starship are to deliver satellites into Earth's orbit, travel to the Moon, and make interplanetary voyages to Mars a reality. With 17 million pounds of thrust, Starship's Super Heavy rocket produces double the thrust of the next most powerful launcher, NASA's Space Launch System . It's propelled by cooled liquid methane and liquid oxygen. It's also remarkably tall, soaring to a height of 394 feet.That scale and payload capacity could lower the barriers to bringing satellites into low Earth orbit.
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