The most powerful rocket ever built has now been stacked…

https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on August 6, 2021 11:26 am

[Red Badger]

The most powerful rocket ever built has now been stacked

Starship 20 is being prepared for stacking atop Super Heavy Booster 4 at Starbase, Texas. The booster already has all 29 Raptor engines installed and the Ship has all three sealevel and all three Vacuum Raptors installed. This will complete the historic first stacking of a complete SpaceX Starship Super Heavy launch system.

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[rktman]

Ruh Roh. Has anyone done the calculation to ensure when they launch it doesn’t screw up muvver erf’s rotation?

[Yo-Yo]

29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster? Who designed this thing, the Soviets?

[Psalm 73]

Man, do I ever miss the old Saturn V rockets.

Huntsville (AL) Air and Space museum used to have the last full Saturn V laying on its side years ago before they refurbed it for a museum.

Just amazing how big that thing was.

[PIF]

29 Raptor engines in the first stage booster?

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Sort of like the Tesla with thousands of AA batteries.

[Red Badger]

See my next post!....................

[NonValueAdded]

So we have moved the Saturn V, up to now the most powerful rocket evah, into second place?

[NonValueAdded]

"The most powerful rocket in the whole world
and will blow your head eardrums clean off."

[frogjerk]

Saw it in Houston at Johnson Space center. Incredible!

[BikerJoe]

Good for Elon, but who writes this crap?

"Has now been stacked" is NOT "being prepared for stacking"...

And I hate to tell folks, but to my knowledge they haven't even test pressurized the booster or sn20 yet, let alone test-fired them, so if they DO stack them soon, it's only going to be a test for operations and fit, and they'll get UNstacked real quick for additional tests.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

So Bezos’s rocket looks like a penis and Elon’s rocket is stacked? Will the two ever get a chance to meet and have a fling?

[Eddie01]

Where are the environmentalists?

It’s a gas guzzler. That’s why I want two.

[Eddie01]

Kennedy in ‘78

Good God that was a moment I remember to this day.

You know, I want to see this candle when it lights up.

Time to book my flight.

[DoubleNickle]

Full stacking took place this morning and now has been unstacked for the stuff you described.

[BikerJoe]

Full stacking took place this morning and now has been unstacked for the stuff you described.

Oops, my bad! I apologize for not keeping up, was a busy morning and I was only just quickly checking FR.

[rktman]

We did a lot of “stacking, unstacking, restacking” with shuttle components over the years.

[Berosus]

I have a bad feeling about this. Last year I learned that in the late 1960s the Russians built a rocket powerful enough to send men to the moon, by clustering together 32 smaller rockets. It was called the N1. They couldn’t get the smaller rockets to work together, so in all four of the test flights, the N1 either blew up, or fell back to earth. Can Elon Musk do better?

[DoubleNickle]

No worries — I’d just finished watching the feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2_dfvRZ4M
for this event — kind of cool seeing the finished product.

[BikerJoe]

They couldn’t get the smaller rockets to work together, so in all four of the test flights, the N1 either blew up, or fell back to earth. Can Elon Musk do better?

While I admit I'm concerned as well about an unprecedented number of engines with that kind of thrust, one thing Elon has going for him is the computer simulations are VERY good these days.

[reg45]

Elon has had an additional fifty years to figure it out.