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33 Raptor engines on Super Heavy booster



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

Starship is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. Standing at 119 m (390 ft) tall, it is designed to be the tallest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built, and the first intended to be fully reusable.[1]

The Starship launch vehicle is made up of the first-stage booster and the Starship second stage. The second stage functions as a self-contained spacecraft for carrying crew or cargo once in orbit. Both stages are powered by Raptor engines that burn liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellants in a highly efficient full-flow staged combustion power cycle. Both rocket stages are designed to be reused by landing vertically at the launch pad.

Starship is planned to have a payload capacity of 150 t (330,000 lb) to low Earth orbit in its fully reusable configuration and 250 t (550,000 lb) to low Earth orbit if fully expended. It is designed to be flown multiple times to spread out the cost of the spacecraft.[2] The spacecraft is planned to be refuelable in orbit before traveling to destinations that require more change in velocity (delta-v budget), such as the Moon and Mars. Proposed applications for Starship include regular crewed and cargo launches, building the Starlink internet constellation, and performing suborbital point-to-point flights on Earth.

The first stage booster, named Super Heavy, is 70 m (230 ft) tall, 9 m (30 ft) wide,[66] and contains thirty-three Raptor engines arranged in concentric rings.[77] The outermost ring of 20 engines are of the "Raptor Boost" configuration with gimbal actuators removed to save weight and a modified injector with reduced throttle performance in exchange for greater thrust.[76] At full power, all engines produce a collective 75.9 MN (17,100,000 lbf) of thrust.[78]

The booster's tanks can hold 3,600 t (7,900,000 lb) of propellant, consisting of 2,800 t (6,200,000 lb) of liquid oxygen and 800 t (1,800,000 lb) of liquid methane.[c] Super Heavy uses 280 L (74 US gal) of hydraulic fluid.[21] The final design will have a dry mass between 160 t (350,000 lb) and 200 t (440,000 lb), with the tanks weighing 80 t (180,000 lb) and the interstage 20 t (44,000 lb).[64]

no man no care. seriously they been shooting rockets for 30 years now and nothings happened

would a manned mission to Mars cure your depression? do u think you can stick around that long to see it?

they even called it a mission to mars, implying it was manned. no one cares about empty rockets.

Honestly, I'm starting to doubt that we have ever even been to the moon

Buzz Aldrin will slap the Vegemite out of your mouth if you say that to his face.

NEVER doubt the White Man's ingenuity.

Based, Musk will make leftards cry again today

nice ty

Elon is blowing NASA out of the water. If Artemis doesn't explode, I'll be surprised SRS

The weirdest part for me was them getting angry and refusing to swear on the bible and just lie about it - plenty of kids these days would do that for fun, let alone to conceal a huge lie/conspiracy..

What's the worst that can happen if you lie when holding The Bible?