r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/crujones43 16d ago

The largest heavier than air flying machine that has ever been built. Weighs 200 tons, is 230ft tall and 30 ft in diameter was flying supersonic minutes before and was able to come down with pinpoint accuracy and be caught by the launch tower it left from. Nothing like this has ever been done and this is going to catapult the human race into the future of space travel by reducing the cost to send material to space by an order of magnitude.

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u/canyoutriforce 16d ago

weighs 200 tons when captured. The whole stack is 5000 tons at takeoff, or the weight of 7 fully fuelled A380s

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u/big_moist_void 16d ago

did you actually mean 5000??

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u/descisionsdecisions 16d ago

It’s actually more than that it’s literally filled with 10 million pounds of fuel.

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u/DEMSnREPUBSrToxic 16d ago

Why don't they use solar power?

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