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FEBRUARY 7, 2022
On the fourth anniversary of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch debut and after an unusual multi-year hiatus, the world’s most powerful operational rocket could be on the brink of an impressive salvo of launches. As of June 2018, SpaceX was supposed to launch the US Air Force’s AFSPC-52 (now USSF-52) mission in September 2020.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2023
It’s larger, taller, heavier, and more powerful than any other launch vehicle in history. 33 Raptor 2 engines power Starship’s Super Heavy booster – also more than any other rocket. Starship’s orbital upper stage is roughly the size (and far heavier and more powerful than) as an entire two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.
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But by the time the signals traverse the multibillion-kilometer distance from the heliopause to Earth, their power has faded to a level 20 billion times weaker than what is needed to run a digital watch. To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020.
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JANUARY 31, 2023
SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020. But the company went on to radically redesign the rocket and its ground systems, forcing it to entirely abandon about a year of work by the end of 2020. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.
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The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. That will allow it to deliver a total of 750 kW (1,000 hp) to the three motors powering the wheels.
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JANUARY 23, 2023
lbf) of thrust, making it more powerful than any rocket in history by a large margin. The culmination of that failure-as-an-option strategy was a series of seven suborbital Starship tests – two short hops of identical prototypes and five launch and landing attempts of five more advanced prototypes between August 2020 and May 2021.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2022
In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket. The principles of the rocket, its general shape and layout, and the Raptor engine powering it remained the same.
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