{"id":6930,"date":"2021-08-07T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2021-08-08T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T12:33:39","slug":"spacex-completes-stacking-biggest-rocket-ever-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/spacex-completes-stacking-biggest-rocket-ever-built\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX completes stacking biggest rocket ever built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX completes stacking Starship for first orbital flight<\/p>\n<p>The American company SpaceX has attached its Starship spacecraft to its booster, making it the biggest spacecraft ever built.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is hoping to use Starship to send people to the Moon and beyond, in line with the billionaire\u2019s plans to allow humanity to become a multiplanetary species. Musk said it was a &#8220;dream come true&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starship Fully Stacked <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fs88RNsmfH\">pic.twitter.com\/Fs88RNsmfH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1423659261452709893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The upper-stage called Starship and a booster called Super Heavy were connected together at the firm&#8217;s Starbase R&amp;D facility in Boca Chica, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Starship SN20 (&#8220;Serial No. 20&#8221;) and its Super Heavy booster together stood a whopping 395 feet tall (120 m), taller than NASA&#8217;s massive Saturn V moon rocket, which was 363 feet tall (110 m).<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said there were four &#8220;significant items&#8221; SpaceX would need to complete before its Starship orbital launch. These include final heat shield tiles for Starship, thermal protection for the Super Heavy&#8217;s engines, more ground system propellant storage tanks and a quick disconnect arm for Starship.<\/p>\n<p>There are attached 29 Raptor rocket engines to the rocket \u2014 making it one of the biggest rocket boosters in history.<\/p>\n<p>A photo shared by Elon Musk today shows the sheer scale of the operation. \u201cCompleting feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster,\u201d Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Completing feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uARWx2HYTr\">pic.twitter.com\/uARWx2HYTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1420819718701780995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX completes stacking Starship for first orbital flight The American company SpaceX has attached its Starship spacecraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,125],"tags":[130,245,246,235,7],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-rocket","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-technology","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Starship.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6934,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/6934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}