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Topic:	SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy rocket

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042023a-spacex-starship-super-heavy-integrated-test-flight.html">SpaceX launches Starship rocket on first test flight, explodes mid-air</a></font> [i]Lifting off on its first fully-integrated test flight, a SpaceX rocket has become the largest and most-powerful launch vehicle to leave the ground — even with it breaking apart and exploding just four minutes into its flight. After a brief hold at T-40 seconds to make last minute pressurization checks, the company's Super Heavy booster ignited its 30 out of its 33 methane-fueled Raptor rocket engines at 8:33 a.m. CDT (1333 GMT) Thursday (April 20), lifting it and its Starship vehicle off its mount at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The launch was the first flight of the Super Heavy and Starship as used together. The Super Heavy and Starship reached "Max Q," the moment of peak mechanical stress on the vehicle, about a minute and 20 seconds into flight, with two more of its engines having shut off early. Almost a minute and a half later, the Super Heavy was to cut off its engines and drop away from Starship, but the separation did not occur. Instead, the entire vehicle began to tumble, leading to the flight termination system being commanded for both Starship and Super Heavy.[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042023a-spacex-starship-super-heavy-integrated-test-flight.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-042023a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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