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In minute of islands7/6/2023 ![]() It’s expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean about an hour and a half after liftoff. Starship will then complete nearly one full lap of the planet, reentering Earth’s atmosphere near Hawaii. The spacecraft will use its own engines, which will burn for more than six minutes, to accelerate to almost orbital speeds - or roughly 17,000 miles per hour. ![]() The booster is expected to ignite its engines and vault the spacecraft out over the Gulf of Mexico as it heads toward space.Ībout two and a half minutes after takeoff, the Super Heavy rocket booster is expected to expend most of its fuel, separate from the Starship spacecraft, and fall into the ocean. The Starship rocket sits on the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 15, 2023. The Starship spacecraft, which stands at 164 feet (50 meters) tall, rides atop the rocket. The vehicle consists of two parts: The Super Heavy rocket booster, a 230-foot-tall (69-meter-tall) cylinder that houses 33 engines and is expected to send an explosive sound booming across the nearby coastal landscape as it fires to life. Engineers opted from there to treat the remainder of launch attempt as a “wet dress rehearsal,” or a practice run that takes teams through all the steps for launch - except liftoff. The first, on Monday, came to a halt after a problem with a valve created pressurization issues. The effort will mark the second launch attempt for Starship. SpaceX will livestream the launch on its website beginning about 45 minutes prior to liftoff. The vehicle is already in position at SpaceX’s privately owned spaceport on the southern tip of Texas. The rocket could lift off as soon as Thursday, during an hour-long launch window that opens at 8:28 a.m. SpaceX is once again gearing up for the inaugural test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever created and the vehicle that could one day return astronauts to the moon or - perhaps - propel the first trip to Mars.
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