SpaceX Super Heavy

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We have successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster back at the launch tower.

What an incredible...

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It began developing Starship, a much larger system intended to make both its enormous first stage and its upper spacecraft reusable.

The booster is called Super Heavy and the spacecraft above it is called Starship.

Unlike Falcon 9, which uses kerosene and liquid oxygen, this new system burns liquid methane and liquid oxygen.

Starship is designed with ambitions extending far beyond ordinary satellite launches.

So it's got two parts.

The bottom part, which does the heavy lifting of the ground, it's called Super Heavy, and it has 33 engines firing at the same time when it launches.

And 33, that is a big number.

And when all those engines light up together, it produces more power than anything we have ever seen leave the ground, more powerful than the very Saturn V, the legendary rocket that took humans to the moon back in 1969.

It has flown through space.

It's splashed down in the ocean.

The massive Super Heavy booster has even been caught up, yes, caught by a giant mechanical arm back at the launch tower, not once, not twice, not three, no, three times.

Yeah, three times.

Welcome to Space Time with Stuart Gary.

The world's largest and most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy, has successfully achieved orbit insertion during its latest test flight out of Texas.

The massive 124-meter-tall stainless steel spacecraft blasted into orbit from its launch pad at Starbase, Texas in a thundering roar, climbing quickly into an almost clear blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds.

Minus nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

[crowd cheering] Starship has landed.

And Starship has landed.

This mission was a key step in efforts to get the Starship Super Heavy ready for regular commercial, military, and scientific missions.

Eventually SpaceX boss Elon Musk envisages Starship as a fully reusable colonial transport system carrying up to 100 people or 150 tons of cargo and supplies at a time into space allowing humans to establish new colonies on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Well, this has to do with Elon Musk and SpaceX, totally.

Um, SpaceX is building its Starship, uh, Super Heavy rocket.

It's already reached orbit now after only four- 14 test flights.

They're looking at possibly two more launches, test launches in October.

It's already operational in the sense that they have put operational Starlink satellites into orbit that are working, but it is a rocket under development.

And Elon Musk has said from day one, he wants to, he's always wants to make money and compete and, uh, bring in profits with anything he does, but the purpose of Starship Super Heavy is to make it possible to build a Mars colony.

So NA- SpaceX has already, uh, uh, delineated its candidate landing zone.

I've posted that on Behind the Black.

Here's the space scientist and author David Whitehouse.

Well, we had our fourteenth test flight of the Starship and the Super Heavy booster that takes it into space.

And the thing which was important about this was that it was the first time that Starship actually got into orbit.

It's an incremental improvement because previous Starship flights have been in a suborbital trajectory, and it only took an extra one percent of boost to put Starship into its orbit.

Well, that's right.

I'm sure that nobody wanted to dump those satellites in the sea because that was the alternative.

They had a problem in ascent with one of the rocket engines from the Super Heavy booster coming out, but that's not so much a problem since they've got, uh, thirty-three of them, and you're able to burn a little longer with fewer rockets than you would have done in order to get to the right place.

But the V3, when it came to propelling the Starship on its own, that's one of the, the six engines at the back of the Starship.

All right, little more than 35 seconds into the flight.

33 out of 33 engines lit on super heavy.

Booster

and ship avionics power and telemetry nominal.

Alright, so we're through maximum aerodynamic pressure.

Stress is going to come down now as we start flying through the upper parts of Earth's atmosphere.

there are only three grid fins now on the super heavy booster.

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Monday, I forgot to mention, the Monday we had a broadcast after Monday morning broadcast, and that was the...

the live stream that I did for the IFT 14 test flight for SpaceX Starship 41 and Super Heavy Booster number 21.

It actually went into orbit and it's on the 18th anniversary of the first orbital flight of the SpaceX's Dragon rocket and But the Starship made two orbits.

They almost weren't going to go, but they had 26 version 3 Starlink satellites, which is probably millions and millions of dollars sitting right there to boost up the system there.