SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and looked to launch what would have been the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today, but pressure issues scrubbed the attempt.
At launch, Super Heavy 7′s thrust comes from 33 Raptor engines with a goal to send the Starship up over the Gulf of Mexico before falling away for a hard splashdown without a signature booster recovery for this test flight.
Even if it had simply made it off the ground, it would have become the most powerful rocket launch ever attempted, breaking the 10.2 million pounds of thrust generated during four attempts by the Soviet Union of its N-1 rocket from 1969-1972. Those rockets all suffered failure midflight and never made it to space.
NASA has high hopes for the program’s success as it awaits a version of Starship to act as the Human Landing System on the Artemis III mission to the moon that will bring back humans, including the first woman, to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.
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