This evening at 5.30 PM IST (12 noon GMT) SpaceX Starship3 is going for a launch, streaming live on X . Great news for the whole world, why ??
Jn its quest to start human settlements on Mars, SpaceX has great space fariing plans. As a first step, the biggest and most powerful launch rocket ever, this 121 m tall rocket, *first phase reusable booster* takes the rocket to 70 km altitude. The *second phase is also reusable*, making turning around and relaunching fast and cheap.
While Starship 1 and 2 (20 april 2023 and 18 November 2023) failed, SpaceX believes in failing fast and learning from each failure and improving. They are not sure that this flight 3 also will be successful, it can fail, but they are ready to learn from the failure and be ready for Starship 4 launch in a couple of months time.
Three major tasks are planned in this developmental flight of Starship 3 - firstly open and close the payload door, secondly shuffle fuel from one tank to another, focusing at future refuelling of one Starship by another in space to help long missions to Mars and beyond and thirdly, re-ignition of its engines for a controlled re-entry to earth atmosphere. Stage 2 after re-ignition is supposed to splash into the Indian Ocean, ISRO may be giving expert guidance in this sector of earth re-entry.
The version 3 Raptor engines with 269 T thrust each, 33 of them, *8877 T total thrust, makes this possibly the most powerful launch rocket in the world*.
In comparison ISRO most powerful rocket (?) GSLV3 first stage had 5.2 Meganewton thrust (530T thrust each) 2 nos. of solid rocket boosters, total 1060 T thrust.
Whether the Starship 3 fails or not, the learning is what SpaceX is interested .. *FAIL FAST and improve* ..🙏🙏🙂🙂
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