Super Heavy & Starship are GO for 4/20 Launch

SpaceX is targeting a second launch attempt on Thursday, April 20 for the first Orbital Flight Test of their new Super Heavy rocket & Starship. The “launch window” is from 8:28 a.m. CDT - 9:30 a.m. CDT.

Powered uphill by the Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines—with a thrust reportedly reaching 16.7 million pounds (7.5 million kilograms)—the vehicle stands to enter the record books as the most powerful rocket ever orbited, with a liftoff impulse more than twice as great as the Saturn V and almost twice as great as NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). And standing 394 feet (120 meters) when fully stacked, it is also the tallest

Footage credit: Mike Killian / http://www.AmericaSpace.com

Видео Super Heavy & Starship are GO for 4/20 Launch канала AmericaSpace