Elon Musk's SpaceX set to fly biggest rocket ever

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The most powerful rocket ever developed is about to attempt a maiden launch.

The vehicle, known as Starship, has been built by the American entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

It stands almost 120m (400ft) high and is designed to have almost double the thrust of any rocket in history.

Monday's uncrewed demonstration will lift off from Boca Chica in Texas. The aim is to send the upper-stage of the vehicle eastward, to complete almost one circuit of the globe.

Mr Musk has appealed for everyone to temper their expectations. It's not uncommon for a rocket to experience some kind of failure on its initial outing.

"It's the first launch of a very complicated, gigantic rocket, so it might not launch. We're going to be very careful, and if we see anything that gives us concern, we will postpone the launch," he told a Twitter Spaces event.

[richard_smith237]

The launch can be watched here....  

 

Launch is at 8pm Thai time. 

 

 

 

 

 

[rabas]

More rocket fuel than ever assembled before in one place.

 

Fuel pumps alone require 3.3 million horsepower just to pump fuel to the engines. Crazy numbers.

 

To quote Musk: Success maybe, excitement guaranteed.

 

[Bkk Brian]

Major Tom we have a problem

 

SpaceX delays test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket

Liftoff of the giant rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurization issue in the booster stage, SpaceX said.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said a pressure valve appeared to be frozen, forcing a postponement of the launch which had been planned for 8:20 am Central Time (1320 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas.

"Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days," Musk tweeted.

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230417-spacex-delays-test-flight-of-starship-world-s-biggest-rocket

[thaibeachlovers]

I wonder who is paying for it?

Such things would surely be too expensive for any individual, or are Tesla cars overpriced?

[Chomper Higgot]

36 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I wonder who is paying for it?

Such things would surely be too expensive for any individual, or are Tesla cars overpriced?

Seek and you shall find:

 

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-technologies/company_financials

 

Interestingly a significant cross over with who funds Twitter.

 

Don’t worry people, Musk has your back.