First test flight of SpaceX’s big Starship

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About Starship-

• Starship is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by SpaceX. 
• Standing at 119 m tall, it is designed to be the tallest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built, and the first intended to be fully reusable. 
• 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.
• It is designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.
• It is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.
• The U.S. space agency NASA has picked the Starship spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the Moon in late 2025 — a mission known as Artemis III — for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
• Starship consists of a 164-foot (50-meter) tall spacecraft designed to carry crew and cargo that sits atop a 230-foot tall first-stage Super Heavy booster rocket.
• Collectively referred to as Starship, the spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket have never flown in combination together, although there have been several sub-orbital test flights of the spacecraft alone.
• Starship, which has six engines of its own, will continue to an altitude of nearly 150 miles, completing a near-circle of the Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean about 90 minutes after launch.
• It generates 17 million pounds of thrust, more than twice of that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

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