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Unleashing a record 17 million pounds of thrust at launch, the sight of SpaceX’s 120-meter-tall Starship rocket roaring skyward is something to behold. The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company has already performed five Starship flights since the first one in April 2023, with each one increasingly successful. Comprising the upper-stage Starship spacecraft and the first-stage Super […]
The upside of SpaceX’s architecture is that, with refueling, Starship can theoretically ferry payloads of 100 metric tons or more to the Moon or Mars, significantly more capacity than any other rocket. The ships could be refueled over and over again, and routinely transit between Earth and destinations in space, making all sorts of fascinating […]