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SpaceX Starship: Everything you’ve ever wondered but were afraid to ask
- SpaceX's Starship test program is getting more and more attention as the company demonstrates more capabilities.
- Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built standing nearly 400 feet tall.
- The rocket consists of two stages: the Super Heavy booster and the second stage (Starship) with a 16.7 million pounds of thrust and the capacity to carry 100-150 tons of cargo and crew.
- Starship the rocket will be fully reusable for the first time in rocketry history that could drive Starship costs down to $2-3 million per launch.
- The rocket now known as Starship has gone under a few different names, earlier referred as BFS (Big Falcon Rocket/Ship), Mars Colonial Transporter, and the Interplanetary Transport System.
- The program for Starship accelerated because of a $4 billion Human Landing System (HLS) award from NASA and Starlink, SpaceX's internet satellite constellation.
- Starship has the potential to fundamentally transform the space economy as it will be a fully reusable launch vehicle.
- NASA awarded SpaceX the HLS award for the Artemis program, ensuring America’s continued supremacy in space.
- According to Musk’s estimate, Starship will launch to Mars in 2026. For Mars, Starship would need a Starship tanker that’s hanging out in orbit to transfer propellant to the main vehicle.
- The Starship that will go to Mars will not look exactly like the ones flying today and instead will be as tall as 500 feet.
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