SpaceX Testing the Starship, or biggest rocket in the world!

Bigger than the SLS by NASA that put men on the Moon in the 1960's, SpaceX Starship boom sauce awesomely large at nearly 400 ft eight, & Tim Dodd the "Everyday Astronaut" on his YouTube channel covers the testing of this amazing chemical rocket after years of development, manufacturing, testing, parts design, systems integration, electrical & mechanical engineering, materials procurement, materials handling, 3D metal printing.

Sadly the 394 ft tall Starship exploded about 30 seconds after launching, as some of its 31 engines did not light or go out as planned. Elon Musk had given 50:50 odds of a successful launch from Texas near the border of Mexico where the unmanned test flight was supposed to take about 1.5 hours with a splash down landing near Hawaii. 

Crowds full of enthusiasm near the launch were cheering excitedly when the Starship launched giving off tons of noise & a giant exhaust plume of CO2, & mostly water vapor, since the launch complex injects high volumes of water to keep everything cool & to greatly reduce sound pressure from the hot expanding exhaust gases exiting the rocket motor nozzles & cones  to produce thrust to impart mechanical force up through the rockets cylindrical shell frame to shove the rocket towards Outerspace by overcoming Earth's gravity, something that requires a lot of energy.

This is why cryogenic liquid fueled rockets are essentially a giant fuel tank since they have to pump thousands of gallons of cryogenic liquid oxygen & fuel into the rocket engine to produce the enormous amounts of thrust needed to generate millions of pounds of thrust to lift so much mass many miles into space. The amount of fuel needed for a launch & the size of the fuel tanks creates something known as the Rocket Mass Paradox since making the fuel tanks bigger for more fuel makes the rocket bigger & heavier with diminishing returns that limit the ultimate size of the rocket. 

I have previously published works explaining that in order to explore our solar system, go to Mars with enough materials to support sustained human life & energy production equipment, water, an ecosystem for human body waste recycling, poop & urine fertilizing food crops grown in living soil systems that are needed for long duration manned missions in space, especially to support recovery of the gut biota that are killed off my ionizing radiation in space. 

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Stainless steel, blood, sweat & tears. I am talking about millions of cumulative man hours of engineering; cryogenic liquid oxygen & purified kerosene fuel & oxidizer pumped through turbo-pumps at thousands of gallons per minute as these upside down metal launch candles shove millions of pounds into space away from Earth gravity, to put thousands of Star-Link micro-satellites into Earth orbit. Where do spacecraft go? Space, but suborbital launches at orbital velocities this ship going to fly people to Hawaii high speed faster than any passenger aircraft can. With a soft touchdown in the Gulf of Mexico, Starship has no removable fairings. Launching from Texas as the 6th orbital launch attempt in 2023. Enjoy the sunrise, fog clearing & emerging clear weather. 

The most powerful rocket to ever fly, without landing & recovering of the booster, and testing the water landing. Today it's just practicing reentry at extreme temperatures that melt normal materials & turns air into plasma, because of the compression of the atmosphere, such that the air molecules can not get out of the way fast enough, so the air heats to the point of being insanely hot plasma because of mechanical forces from the reentry vehicle coming from space back into Earth's atmosphere which becomes thicker with gas molecules as the spacecraft approaches the surfaces of Earth.

A major test of max Q or the maximum forces that the spacecraft will experience. Grid-fins extended & flaps at full, are you curious to see what it looks like, or watching the booster separation, much longer in duration that most Falcon 9 stage operations, stage separation with kicking flipping actions, with 6 engines on the upper stage lighting after booster separation. 3:11 boost back burn, after coasting for 20 seconds before lighting its engines. When Falcon 9 returns to Earth the boost reentry in transonic when the landing burn with 3 engines lit to make a soft landing possible. 

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"This is the first fully integrated full stack test flight of Starship and the mighty Super Heavy booster. At lift off, it will become the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly producing over twice as much thrust as the Saturn V that took humans to the moon. 

The goal of the test is to get as far along in the mission as possible with a handful of important goals such as; clearing the launch pad, reaching max Q, getting to stage separation, ignition of Starship, burn Starship's engines for 7 minutes and 20 seconds which would get Starship up to nearly orbital velocities and would place Starship on a suborbital trajectory that will cause it to reenter just north of Hawaii. This would allow the teams to test the reentry profile and heat shields for the first time from orbital velocities."